61–70 of 209 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If someone says to you: "we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money" You should counter: "there's no shortage of meaningful problems; I'd be irresponsible if I didn't work on the one that improves my family's standard of living the most"
"I'm sorry, I'm looking for employers who aren't just motivated by work."
Corp: "We only hire the very best" Programmer: "What's the salary?" Corp: "Market average. Also, we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If someone says to you: "we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money" You should counter: "there's no shortage of meaningful problems; I'd be irresponsible if I didn't work on the one that improves my family's standard of living the most"
"I'm sorry, I'm looking for employers who aren't just motivated by work."
Corp: "We only hire the very best" Programmer: "What's the salary?" Corp: "Market average. Also, we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money"
We want people who are motivated by the mission .
Sure, some of them have a social aspect, something interesting, etc
But for others I can't see how they manage to say it with a straight face
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also that "market average" is usually below market average.
"Market average" is generally based on salary surveys, which kind of have to trim the extremes. So it's the median (ish), which is often lower than the mean.
Corp: "We only hire the very best" Programmer: "What's the salary?" Corp: "Market average. Also, we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money"
Joel wrote this same post about 10 years ago. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
In the spirit of going deep, the root cause of the F1 crash was human error (being in the wrong strategy mode) rather than ego.
Experience tells me that hiring posts that demand this level of excellence are often covering for weaknesses in their process. "We only hire the best!" The best at what? "The best at everything of course. We want a full stack wish fulfillment genie." Either you have no idea what skills are missing from your current team, or they are all missing, and you want to fill that gap with one person rather than a team. Job po…
* asking for "everything but the kitchen sink" skills
* confusing Java with Javascript
* even mentioning J2EE in the requisiton (who on Earth wants to do that in this day and age?)
* copy-pasting of the requisition leading to truncation of the postingCorp: "We only hire the very best" Programmer: "What's the salary?" Corp: "Market average. Also, we're looking for people who aren't just motivated by money"
Did we mention the perks like our "unlimited vacation policy"?
I currently have 7 weeks off/year plus 10 holiday days. No way I'd take all of that with the unlimited plan.