How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
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How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
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Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#2If you want to find developers, read their resumes in their entirety before you solicit them to apply.
A couple of days ago I was solicited to work as an assembler.
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#3If you want to find developers, read their resumes in their entirety before you solicit them to apply. A couple of days ago I was solicited to work as an assembler.
How can you expect people who don't read to read this?
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#4Depends - are we hiring brogrammers or precious snowflake developers who must be feted and every desire fulfilled to keep them happy - and let them keep producing the crap bogging down the web as we know it?
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#5Depends - are we hiring brogrammers or precious snowflake developers who must be feted and every desire fulfilled to keep them happy - and let them keep producing the crap bogging down the web as we know it?
They aren't the only ones producing crap on the web.
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#6Depends - are we hiring brogrammers or precious snowflake developers who must be feted and every desire fulfilled to keep them happy - and let them keep producing the crap bogging down the web as we know it?
I agree. Evolution is overrated, let's go back to BBS.
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#7If you want to find developers, read their resumes in their entirety before you solicit them to apply. A couple of days ago I was solicited to work as an assembler.
Stuff like this concerns me. If a company I'm interested in solicits me for a phone call and the position is a much more senior level than I've had in the past, or is of a more demanding skillset than I have experience with, I feel like I am not only wasting both of our time, but hurting my chances if something more on my grade becomes available in the future. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to outright refuse, would I?
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#8"anytime they’re looking at job ads, serious developer positions, not front end developers... "
Ouch. I guess I never should have dropped PHP for client side MVC apps.
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#9If you want to find developers, read their resumes in their entirety before you solicit them to apply. A couple of days ago I was solicited to work as an assembler.
I routinely get recruiters for help desk jobs emailing me. No idea where that came from.
Re: How to Find, Hire, and Retain Developers – Interview with Cal Evans
#10"anytime they’re looking at job ads, serious developer positions, not front end developers... " Ouch. I guess I never should have dropped PHP for client side MVC apps.
I think you were ahead of the curve. I have seen multiple companies that seem to think of front-end as "lesser" engineering, but then struggled to fill front-end roles more than any other position, and struggle to build great UIs. "Front-end" still has a stigma of taking a PSD and turning it into HTML/CSS, even though these days front-ends are getting extremely sophisticated and require tons of strong coding skills. Ultimately supply/demand work in your favor. And I wouldn't take anything a PHP expert has to say about "serious" developer roles too seriously.