At the moment the company i am working for (located in Vienna) is searching for new developers. It is not that easy to find qualified developers that fit in our team these days. As mentioned in the last post we are using Scrum as development process and our primary programming language is C#. So if you are interested feel free to write me.
Joel Spolsk wrote a book called "Smart and Gets Things Done" which addresses exactly the challenges hiring people.
In his book he describes how his company tries to find the best developers available. As he mentions in his book "top technical talent doesn't look for employment" they look for so much more than only an employment with high salary, even in Europe. It's highly recommended to read this book.
By the way this time we are trying to use http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ to find new employees. At the moment most of the posts on the site are from the US or India but let's see what the posting will bring us. Anyway i will report the results of the posting in a view days.
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It's always this conflict between "engineers are artists" vs. "engineers are craftsman". Hard to decide.
Joel goes for the artists-approach and got very extreme opinions (e.g. the limo service, which is even discussed on his amazon-review-page).
I tend to compare engineers to soccer players: Some are very good when they start (or after some years of experience). But without a tough competition around them, especially if they are treated like artists, they become fastidious and think they are the absolute best and worth every money and every service they could take. That's why austrian soccer players, staying in Austria, don't improve any more. They lean back and are satisfied on the level where they are, don't improve, get frustated but recognize it almost too late (or sometimes too late) - or they start investing their energy into other, non-work-related areas.
The same thing is true for engineers, at least from my point of view. Only a very small set of engineers I know search for challenges and competition, the others just do what they do. It's a pity.
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