Finding Great Developers
(kamalakar)
Where are all those great developers?
The first time you try to fill an open position, if you?re like most people, you place some ads, maybe browse around the large online boards, and get a ton of resumes.
As you go through them, you think, ?hmm, this might work,? or, ?no way!? or, ?I wonder if this person could be convinced to move to Buffalo.? What doesn?t happen, and I guarantee this, what never happens is that you say, ?wow, this person is brilliant! We must have them!? In fact you can go through thousands of resumes, assuming you know how to read resumes, which is not easy, and I?ll get to that on Friday, but you can go through thousands of job applications and quite frankly never see a great software developer. Not a one.
Here is why this happens.
The great software developers, indeed, the best people in every field, are quite simply never on the market.
The average great software developer will apply for, total, maybe, four jobs in their entire career.
The great college graduates get pulled into an internship by a professor with a connection to industry, then they get early offers from that company and never bother applying for any other jobs. If they leave that company, it?s often to go to a startup with a friend, or to follow a great boss to another company, or because they decided they really want to work on, say, Eclipse, because Eclipse is cool, so they look for an Eclipse job at BEA or IBM and then of course they get it because they?re brilliant.
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