[stult]

My company had the same trouble. The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area (we are located in a different, large, and tech heavy US city). Overall candidates tend to be younger and less experienced, oftentimes with boot camp backgrounds. Posts here also apparently tend to attract applicants who specialize in trendy, fad of the moment stacks or more "light" languages and frameworks, when we are looking more for embedded people. In any case, the candidates here are the type we don't have trouble finding through more traditional and better targeted channels. Our recruiting pain points are at the senior and up levels, in enterprise and embedded stacks.

[anoncoward111]

I think your recruiting pains in finding senior/enterprise positions can probably be explained by the following:

1) out of the 325 million US citizens, maybe 10,000 people at most meet your qualifications

2) most of them are already employed

3) most of them probably don't read that thread if they even post here at all

4) it might be wiser to hire them as a consultant and have them train a proficient and loyal dev to implement their recommendations

[BigJono]

It could also be that you're committing some common flaws that make your job listings much less actionable than your competitors.

I'm not overly specialised or senior, but even at my level I find that when I'm actively looking, I get way more interest than I can possibly follow up on with the time I have available. So any mistakes you make will end up with your listing being filtered out.

If you're targetting people that receive 50 recruiter e-mails a day, things like not listing salary, overly long JDs, spewing a bunch of marketing bullshit in the JD, etc, will pretty much result in an instant pass. Other comments here have called OP out for those exact things, maybe GP is making the same mistakes?

[anoncoward111]

Definitely. It's a labor sellers market in that space. Ironically, for lower skill labor, candidates have to jump through hoops :)

[itronitron]

So, if you don't want to exclude experienced people from applying I suggest emphasizing the mission of the company, the size and number of dev/data/design/eng teams, and core languages. A lot of the posts do mention the fad of the moment stacks but I have never applied to any of those :)

[sureaboutthis]

>Posts here also apparently tend to attract applicants who specialize in trendy, fad of the moment stacks or more "light" languages and frameworks

And I just got downvoted a ton for posting that statement by a headhunter elsewhere. He also said what you said:

>The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area