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Re:70 job interviews in 17 days by kafkaesq on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:02PM (#14684584)
I thought there is a shortage on devs these days.

No. It's difficult to evaluate and hire, and the process generally takes much longer than companies would like, for a whole bunch of reasons (some good, some bad).

Which people confuse with "a shortage of qualified devs".

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Re:70 job interviews in 17 days by NotSammyHagar on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:06AM (#14708455)
That is an interesting perspective, but quite different than mine. But it could be there is both a shortage of devs and it is difficult to hire and eval etc.

Seattle is estimated to have over 15,000 dev openings. My last company wanted to hire several hundred on its own. All the people we wanted had multiple offers. There seemed to be more jobs than people, but to be fair, it could be because we were all missing a bunch of good people. But it was hard to even get people to apply, they were tired of companies bugging them to interview. It sure felt like there was a shortage devs, because they didn't even want to interview with us.

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