Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to hire a good developer?
by austincheney on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:41AM
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Good developer is highly subjective and often disappointing. When people say that they typically mean specifically targeted candidate. How long it takes to find that person typically comes down to:
* specificity of targeting
* commonality of targeted skills in the market place
* competition for such candidates
Confusing something good for those factors is half the reason many companies stop reading resumes and make poor hiring decisions. A poor hiring decision is not just someone unqualified but also people who are well qualified yet not what you expect or need.
In my case as a JavaScript developer many companies knowingly ship the same kinds of crappy software over and over because they leverage their hiring risks away from writing software to tooling popular tools/frameworks.
* specificity of targeting
* commonality of targeted skills in the market place
* competition for such candidates
Confusing something good for those factors is half the reason many companies stop reading resumes and make poor hiring decisions. A poor hiring decision is not just someone unqualified but also people who are well qualified yet not what you expect or need.
In my case as a JavaScript developer many companies knowingly ship the same kinds of crappy software over and over because they leverage their hiring risks away from writing software to tooling popular tools/frameworks.