The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
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Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#2Would this be as laugh-riot funny if somebody posted a fake job offering just to watch people squirm?
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#3Would this be as laugh-riot funny if somebody posted a fake job offering just to watch people squirm?
That's not a valid comparison. As I understand it, the Pete London persona didn't advertise himself as looking for work - recruiters effectively started spamming him.
If someone created an entire fake company, and then laughed at engineers who tried to contact them to find out if they were hiring or not, that would probably not be very funny.
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#4Would this be as laugh-riot funny if somebody posted a fake job offering just to watch people squirm?
Already been done, actually: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/get-a-job-the-craigslist-expe...
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#5Wherry's original blog post was better. She has a nice graph of where she sourced all of her Javascript dev recruits.
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#6Or, how about instead of trying to find the bestest Javascript ninja, you take a promising engineer and, I don't know, teach them? Whatever you might think, web technologies are NOT very difficult to learn. Most start-ups work on pretty trivial problems. People in the start-up crowd seem to believe that the smartest people on the planet are building web start-ups. Think again.
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#7Or, how about instead of trying to find the bestest Javascript ninja, you take a promising engineer and, I don't know, teach them? Whatever you might think, web technologies are NOT very difficult to learn. Most start-ups work on pretty trivial problems. People in the start-up crowd seem to believe that the smartest people on the planet are building web start-ups. Think again.
We did plenty of that as well :)
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Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#9Or, how about instead of trying to find the bestest Javascript ninja, you take a promising engineer and, I don't know, teach them? Whatever you might think, web technologies are NOT very difficult to learn. Most start-ups work on pretty trivial problems. People in the start-up crowd seem to believe that the smartest people on the planet are building web start-ups. Think again.
The other great part of teaching someone is you can usually get decent talent at a lower cost, and they can learn your process and standards. I've been in a few places where devs come in and they feel like they own the place and everybody should get in line with how they code the process they feel is right.
Re: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
#10Or, how about instead of trying to find the bestest Javascript ninja, you take a promising engineer and, I don't know, teach them? Whatever you might think, web technologies are NOT very difficult to learn. Most start-ups work on pretty trivial problems. People in the start-up crowd seem to believe that the smartest people on the planet are building web start-ups. Think again.
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