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Re: Morning Tech Bits

Jul 31, 2012, 19:44

Sepharo

Silicon Avatar wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 12:56:
One part of it says that companies who weren't hip enough (whatever) could not hire the "most sought-after recent graduates". Huh?

That's how my company is with hiring developers. Who wants to work for the company that (used to until last year) make programmers wear ties when Quicken is just down the street hiring thousands and throwing Google-esque perks and lavish parties at them. I'm not exaggerating when I say our medium size company lost 30+ devs within a year and a half to Quicken (and a few others) and it wasn't about pay at all.

We are dying to get some new college grads but when the job market is so hot for developers we're stuck with bottom of the barrel contractors.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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Comment [quote="Sepharo"Jul 31, 2012, 19:44][quote="Silicon Avatar"Jul 31, 2012, 12:56]One part of it says that companies who weren't hip enough (whatever) could not hire the "most sought-after recent graduates". Huh? [/quote] That's how my company is with hiring developers. Who wants to work for the company that (used to until last year) make programmers wear ties when Quicken is just down the street hiring thousands and throwing Google-esque perks and lavish parties at them. I'm not exaggerating when I say our medium size company lost 30+ devs within a year and a half to Quicken (and a few others) and it wasn't about pay at all. We are dying to get some new college grads but when the job market is so hot for developers we're stuck with bottom of the barrel contractors. [/quote]

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