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by lylejantzi3rd 1051 days ago
> So they hire anyone who makes duck noises assuming they are ducks.

Isn't it more accurate to say they hire anybody making duck noises assuming they are wolves? Technical interviews in no way identify the skills developers are going to use in their daily work.
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baz00 1051 days ago
Finding technically competent people is easy. Finding people who continue to give a fuck the moment their trial period is over is difficult.
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lylejantzi3rd 1051 days ago
> Finding technically competent people is easy.

This is not what I've been told by many, many hiring managers over the past few years.

> Finding people who continue to give a fuck the moment their trial period is over is difficult.

Well... yeah? I've been saying for years now that if passion is a hard requirement to getting a job, then you're begging your applicants to lie to you.

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re-thc 1051 days ago
> Well... yeah? I've been saying for years now that if passion is a hard requirement to getting a job, then you're begging your applicants to lie to you.

Caring about the work is not passion. Most of the time work involves politics, paperwork and dealing with all sorts of things that people don't like. I doubt anyone is passionate about this type of thing.

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baz00 1051 days ago
It's really easy. The problem they have is finding technically competent people in the desired budget.
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nullc 1051 days ago
Disagree. Openly offer a million dollars a year and the extra competent people you get will be buried under a neigh uncountable number of additional pretenders. So no matter what you pay it's never easy.
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mordae 1050 days ago
AND then the HR sociopaths filter out anyone not neurotypical who wouldn't have any issues doing the job, but is otherwise weird.
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nullc 1050 days ago
The fact that they accept most of the pretenders because they do a better job of acting normal is the worst part, because there are many more. dropping half the qualified isn't many people, letting half the pretenders through is a large number.
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hajile 1050 days ago
It's demotivating when you know you're doing 80% of the work, but getting paid the same as the other 5 people on the team. When a company finds a great dev, they seldom have the sense to pay that person enough to make them feel motivated to outperform their colleagues.
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whywhywhywhy 1050 days ago
Used to be "You can pay people to show up but you can't pay people to care" now it's more "You can pay people... they might show up"
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