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Ask HN: What are things you wish you knew about hiring engineers?

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Re: Ask HN: What are things you wish you knew about hiring engineers?

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Why?

So that American programmers have jobs. Quote from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870887 : === I worked for Best Buy. Entire teams fired but first had to train the Indian Accenture replacements. Entirely their right to fire us but don’t you dare say there is a “talent shortage.” There is definitely a talent shortage — of talent willing to work for $20/hour. In the jobs I’m seeing now, what used to be $65…

Are foreigners downvoting my comments?

Re: Ask HN: What are things you wish you knew about hiring engineers?

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I don't understand how Mazeg is related to your question. Is it your main project and you are going to hire people?

Sorry for the misunderstanding, should have made it clearer. Mazeg is a service provider company that i've started. Link was misplaced there didn't want it and can't remove now :D lol

Sorry for the delay. My usual recommendation is to read whatever patio11 wrote about this, but I think most of his advice is about solo consulting instead of a managing a consulting company. https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ Probably the most relevant are https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... and https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...

I also like the old post of Joel Sposlky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Probably the most relevant are shown when you click "Recruiter" near the bottom.

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