[general_ai]

> As opposed to not responding to your hiring ads

Could be response rate, sure. Could be our proximity to Google, which manages to hire C++ devs just fine (fully a half of their codebase is C++).

We've managed to hire some folks after all, with some remedial training they're doing fine. I just wish it wasn't so hard to find them, and they wouldn't require months of close supervision after you hire them.

[mahyarm]

How about all the embedded engineers who go on to become RoR engineers because it pays much better?

Google is probably willing to train people too, which might be a difference for you. C++ isn't that fun of a language compared to others too.

[general_ai]

Nah. Google doesn't "train" per se. They expect that you already know your shit pretty well when you get hired, or else they just don't hire you. From there on out you're on your own. No one will "train" you specifically, although opportunities are sometimes available. In particular, no one will specifically train you to write tight code. Your CLs will just get rejected until you learn that on your own. Source: spent 8 years at Google.