[aespinoza]

Have you ventured into Orange County ? Not everybody that works or is willing to work in LA lives in LA. Try looking a little more south, specially Irvine.

From what I have seen there are a LOT of .Net developers in LA and Orange County, if your stack is .Net you should not have a problem finding good people.

Ruby and Python developers are a pain to find. A lot of the "Good" developers are not even proficient in the language/tools.

There are good java developers here, but not as much as .Net developers.

Tips:

* Use LinkedIn to find people in LA, Orange County and even San Diego.

* Target user groups. There are a lot of good developers in the UG and they usually have friends that are developers as well.

* Always get recommendations from people that know the developer you are interested. I have even seen some startups that only hire people that have been recommended from someone they know.

[rubiquity]

> Ruby and Python developers are a pain to find. A lot of the "Good" developers are not even proficient in the language/tools.

Care to elaborate on this? I used to live in San Diego and didn't experience this. Is it that much different in OC/LA?

[elikami]

I've scowered linkedin and it's not as easy as you say. Any suggestions on how to utilize the tool in a more efficient way?

I haven't tried to search by groups, so we'll see what I come up with.