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by toomuchtodo 824 days ago
You see these attempts every few years, with the work coming back with nearshoring and re-onshoring. How confident are you in the hiring processes of most major corps that they can find diamonds in LCOL global geographies? I am not confident. They can't even figure out hiring locally. It's also a lot harder to seek legal recourse when the employee is out of your jurisdictional reach.

(20+ years in tech, ymmv, n=1, thoughts and opinions my own)
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charlieKilo 824 days ago
I am not sure about diamonds but I was involved recruiting software engineers in London City a few years ago using the best recruitment agencies they were back then on the market. Let me tell you, it was a disaster. I do not know whether this was specific to UK, industry or time period but it was a joke. I do not see a reason why broader pool of potential candidates is worse then geographically limited selection, if permanent working from home is on the table.
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justinclift 824 days ago
> it was a disaster

Was the testing just leetcode crap, or was it based on actually being able to get stuff done? ;)

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charlieKilo 824 days ago
That's the problem - it was just for senior developers, not rocket scientists. Most of candidates (curated by agencies) have poor coding skills, soft skills non-existent. So we didn't even dream of people who can get the job done and be independent.
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justinclift 824 days ago
Hmmm, bad salary range for the location maybe?

If it's something you can share, do you remember what the salary range was roughly?

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