[poof131]

While what you say can often be true, it is a sign of weak leadership. Strong leaders promote the best people and thereby lift themselves and the whole team. Bad leaders see strong subordinates as threats to their power and suffocate the team. Not saying there aren’t a LOT of bad leaders out there, but what you describe isn’t a law everywhere.

The bigger point I think is your first sentence. She’s way above average and couldn’t get a job for a year. “Woe is us, the shortage of qualified candidates“. Like I was telling one friend who was complaining about not being able to find someone good, “The reality is you can’t find someone good at the price you want to pay.” There’s a shortage of talent that wants to live in a one bedroom apartment with their family for scraps of equity while the boss lives in a mansion and makes millions, that’s the real shortage in SV.

[alexashka]

It's how you define 'qualified'.

Here's from her blog:

"Professionals i admire were calling my work impressive, but the person interviewing me was saying he couldn’t contextualize my experience because i “hadn’t worked at facebook or google or studied at stanford”."

Here's another:

"despite my 10 years of marketing and social media experience and despite the reach of my latest campaign, i was told i wouldn’t be that person."

This lady is clearly qualified. She's just not a good 'culture fit'.

I get that a fair bit myself - there's an apparent shortage of iOS developers and I happen to be one looking for work currently. Do you know how many companies explicitly say 'do you have a bachelor of computer science? no? ok bye'?

A lot! A college graduate being able to do iOS should be a 'wait, he/she must be good, that's unusual', instead it is straight to the garbage bin.

I could of course just start straight up lying on my resume and get better results but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Which means the hoardes of shameless liars who will say anything to get the job, get ahead. So it goes...

[joshstrange]

I don't mean to nitpic but I tried to go read some of her blog [0] and it almost drove me crazy.... Someone buy her a Shift key! Lowercase "i"'s by themselves cause my skin to crawl as-is but she doesn't even start sentences with capitals.

[0] http://eatwritewalk.com/

[pinewurst]

"Professionals i admire were calling my work impressive, but the person interviewing me was saying he couldn’t contextualize my experience because i “hadn’t worked at facebook or google or studied at stanford”."

This was explicitly from some doofus at Airbnb. One can at least hope that outside the Unicorn Ranch (and the FaceGoog) that people are more reasonable.

[dandrick]

Is she qualified? Maybe.

My question is, what are the qualifications of the person that actually got the job?

[CaptSpify]

I constantly hear "We can't find any good techs". After interviews, I ask how it went, and I constantly hear "He was great, but he wanted too much money!"

So I whistle and get back to work. I've tried bringing it up before, but it just seems to fall on deaf ears.

[MollyR]

Several of the companies I've worked at had this exact issue. So we'd hire a few people fresh out of college train to them to an acceptable standard, then watch them find another higher paying job. Leadership refused to pay good developers, their market worth. It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

[CaptSpify]

> It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

I've heard that too, but I also hear they work less hours, have better vacation, and other benefits. You'll have to balance something out if you really want great employees.

[MollyR]

Our CEO from the uk didn't bring any of those benefits over.

[jbotttt]

To summarise your first paragraph #notallmanagers

[mosselman]

Why do not all managers summarise his first paragraph?