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I'm a senior full stack developer with data science experience living in EU(Norway). I have not applied for a position that has been advertised in 6 years. All the offers I consider these days comes from cold calls from recruiters or the companies them self. They have to sell them self, as I am the interviewer. Where I work now, we really struggled last year with recruiting developers, so we changed the recruitment p…
I looked at your comments to find your position posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149582 . I'm not your target group, but still... Here's the introductory sentence: "Service Partner ONE is the technology partner for modern office management in Europe." OK, sounds fine. I don't know what office management is, but there are a few more sentences coming up that will surely explain. Next: "Our platform supp…
I use a script to filter only Remote jobs with a tech I'm interested in.
I then filter first by those who include a salary.
This gives me a reasonable list.
Developers with experience who've made themselves available via LinkedIn & other sources get at least a request every couple days about a job. At that point, the question is which of these are interesting enough that I would consider the risk of leaving my current place & how much work does it take to apply?
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In addition, their company name couldn't be much more boring.
Eh, picking a job based on how cool the name of the company is probably won’t get you too far
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Thanks for the detailed feedback! I have mostly improved on marketing material that was already there but I can see now it should probably be rewritten completely for this purpose. And I will try to convince them to include salary ranges. I have tried before but did not get permission. It is not required by German law to post the salary and instead sharing these numbers is even less common than what I have seen from…
Its lacking a mission statement honestly. "Someone called us wework without walls?". Were you thinking of something like "engineers without borders", when this statement was written? I looked into your company. Its not wework, wework is realestate, your company doesn't seem like one. Its a german Cintas, but you outsource things instead of using inhouse resources. https://www.cintas.com/ Checkout cintas's statement "…
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Citation needed, that sounds like a very biased view of things.
I would say that a job available on site OR remotely will attract more candidates than an on site only. To share my own experience, I've just bought an apartment and I've been thinking of working in a new company. I will automatically exclude non-remote positions (also the reason why I might leave my current company as the managers can work remotely no question asked but the devs can't...)
Whilst I'm currently enjoying the flexibility of renting, I may well buy a house within the next year or two, and at that point re-location will definitely not be an option. The transaction costs of buying and selling property are eye-watering. Ideally I'd like to buy in an affordable rural or semi-rural area and continue to work remotely.
1. place said a small test would be required. "small" was on range from 8-12 hours of work. Their words. I told them my rates.
2. Another place liked me. Their stack was kubernetes. I didn't have that experience since I chose mesos. Thats cool. 2 more interviews later, and they said 'you didn't show up to interview' ?! Oh yeah, i was really disqualified because I didnt have kube experience. wtf?
3. another place said they did remote. when going through interview, flipped scripts to a SV job that paid $100k /yr. eff that. thats poverty wages in the valley.
Local places have been significantly better than who's hiring. So far, what Ive seen has been a shitshow. Pity that.
I'm a senior full stack developer with data science experience living in EU(Norway). I have not applied for a position that has been advertised in 6 years. All the offers I consider these days comes from cold calls from recruiters or the companies them self. They have to sell them self, as I am the interviewer. Where I work now, we really struggled last year with recruiting developers, so we changed the recruitment p…
When did Norway become part of the European Union?
Years back I posted saying my local team was hiring (at Amazon) and mentioned we hire interns. Got 20 resumes from students looking for internships, 6 of whom got hired. When I submitted them to the recruiting, I made it clear these weren't personal references, nobody I knew. But the recruiter filed them that way anyways, so I got like $500 bonus per intern hire. A nice $3,000 bonus for a HN post and funneling some r…
Keep in mind that you may be pricing yourself too low for your market. If after the above, you still aren't at least interviewing quality candidates, bump your budget in $20k (or whatever local currency makes sense for you) increments until the market wants to come to you.
tl; dr - unhappy with the quality of your talent pool? Hiring remote and raising your budget is the fastest way to buy yourself out of the problem.
stl; dr? - 'Fast, cheap, and good - pick any two'