“Most recruiters don’t care about your side projects or the meetups you went to. What matters is your current company. They safely assume that a developer from a cutting-edge company is more likely to be a great developer than one from a Java 1.4 shop.” https://t.co/jSd2vndtY9
A regular salary is the death of self-development. Why learn new things, when you get paid regardless? Why put in effort, energy, and inspiration, when you're not rewarded for them? Why push the edge of what you can do, so long as the checks keep coming anyway?
I felt spammy trying to hire people on the internet. So I’m trying a different recruiting strategy! 🧷
I bought 40 cans of SPAM from Safeway, created labels with generic recruiter copy, and put them on shelves all over the city.
Hoping the right candidate finds one and replies.
"We don't have the time to do good engineering, because we need to get the company out of the hole it's in."
"Gee. How'd the company get into such a hole, anyway?"
"Bad engineering."