Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience, and preparation

Re:Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience... by lapcat on Friday May 13, 2022 @06:54PM (#31373380)

Are these wealthy applicants who don't need a job? If you're applying for jobs, then you either get a job, in which case you become an employed programmer, and thus competent in your eyes, or you eventually run out of money. Difficult to remain unemployed for a long period of time.

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Re:Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience... by sokoloff on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:05PM (#31373461)

Whether they’re working through their previous severance package or waiting tables, anyone who takes more interviews than average to be hired will be over-represented in the application pool, for the exact reason you describe [they need money] plus they are more likely to be involuntarily termed and put back into the pool.

It’s not that being employed makes them competent in my eyes, but rather that being competent makes them more likely to be employed.

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Re:Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience... by lapcat on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:16PM (#31373530)

> anyone who takes more interviews than average to be hired

What is the average?

My impression is that even "top" candidates take a lot of interviews, which gives them a lot of options and possibly multiple job offers that they can use to drive up the price in negotiations.

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