Ask HN: Hiring Managers, what are you struggling with in hiring people?

Re:Ask HN: Hiring Managers, what are you struggling with in ... by djb_hackernews on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:44PM (#10459249)

It's not hard.

* Advertise your above market rates

* Advertise your generous referral bonus system

* Be very clear about the role (responsibilities, domain, org structure, etc)

* Poach from the pool of employees from respected, established companies. Ideally with 2+ years (they've basically done the vetting for you, and you know they've survived at least 2 review cycles)

* Avoid long drawn out interviews, any in person interviews should be treated like a final sanity check before an offer, like management interviews are.

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Re:Ask HN: Hiring Managers, what are you struggling with in ... by debacle on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @01:45PM (#10459752)

Publishing rates? Above market rates? Our salaries are competitive. We can't tell you what they are, but they're competitive. Please interview with us. /s

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Re:Ask HN: Hiring Managers, what are you struggling with in ... by codegeek on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @01:47PM (#10459776)

Did I forget to mention that we have "excellent benefits and perks" /s

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Re:Ask HN: Hiring Managers, what are you struggling with in ... by mrits on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:11PM (#10466199)

I like the idea of advertising the actual salary. The rest of your points makes me believe you have either been lucky or haven't actually had a lot of success in this approach.

Not getting fired at a company for 2 years is an extremely easy thing to do and means almost nothing. To the contrary I've hired some extremely talented people that have previously fired just a couple months on the job.

Quite honestly, saying recruiting is not hard makes me think you are just not very intelligent.

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