Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a...
by humanrebar on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:51PM
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> ...if it takes 6 months to get a new developer up and running on the codebase, and then they leave just when they are getting productive.
That's something you can optimize for. An overqualified engineer shouldn't take six months to earn their keep unless the codebase is a huge mess. If the overqualified engineer is worth the salary they're really qualified for, they'll be able to describe exactly what parts of the system need to get fixed so the next engineer can be patching code in much less time.
That's something you can optimize for. An overqualified engineer shouldn't take six months to earn their keep unless the codebase is a huge mess. If the overqualified engineer is worth the salary they're really qualified for, they'll be able to describe exactly what parts of the system need to get fixed so the next engineer can be patching code in much less time.