Want good programmers? Then pay them.

Re:Want good programmers? Then pay them. by eli_gottlieb on Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:18PM (#3925867)

Do you really think it's fair to require Stripe to assign a member of their engineering team (that means you after they hire you) to review every strangers GitHub accounts, when you refuse to invest even a little time in signalling to them that you're the real deal (the puzzles aren't all multi-day endeavours)?

There's no such thing as fairness in the job market. If Stripe can't find enough programmers to fill their needs, then yes, they need to allocate their own labor to recruiting. At some point, the business cycle will swing the other way, and it will become necessary for programmers to put our time into hunting for companies who want to hire even one programmer.

C'est la vie.

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Re:Want good programmers? Then pay them. by mseebach on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:49AM (#3927719)

> If Stripe can't find enough programmers to fill their needs...

... then allocating the programmers they have to sifting through a completely open "jobs" mailbox is still probably not a good idea.

> At some point, the business cycle will swing the other way, and it will become necessary for programmers to put our time into hunting for companies who want to hire even one programmer.

For the level of programmer competence we're talking about here, that hasn't happened yet.

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Re:Want good programmers? Then pay them. by eli_gottlieb on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:56AM (#3928655)

For the level of programmer competence we're talking about here, that hasn't happened yet.

Define that level non-tautologically then, please.

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