I have posted that the company i am working for is searching for developers a few weeks ago. As mentioned we tried to use http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ to find engineers that are searching for challenges as Christopher mentioned in his post. After the posting is not available any more i want to share our results with you.
We got 5 Replies - 3 of them where from Indian Consulting companies and just 2 where from interested candidates. I did not expect there would be much replies special if you take a closer look at postings form Europe (at the moment 14) but two is fare too few.
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Because of the current tight situation it is nearly impossible to attract potentially good people as a small company with no name. Most people are very conservative concerning their jobs. The problem is, that if your are searching fo craftsmen, meaning people who love what they do but be pragmatic how they do it, we are fishing in a very small pool...
So you are sasying that 2 people are not enough.
I'd say the more interesting question is: How qualified are the two? I mean, if you got two brilliant world-changing smart-looking IT-experts who are really good, two is much better than 100 from derStandard.at or monster.at where you have to apply another filter on your own.
So - how good are they, Gerd? Average Austrian stuff, or really worth something?
And another comment (based on Rupert's comment): Highly qualified people in my environment are basically categorizable into two types:
1) People staying at their current company for a lot of years, switching not that often.
2) People switching regularly - but not because of a specific company, but because of a specific challenge (no matter if this is done at Microsoft, Company XYZ or whatever). It could be an interesting approach to break this traditional pattern ("Searching for C++-expert", "searching for technology ABC", ...) and apply the topic of the job ("searching for developers for a system doing crazy stuff") instead. Could bring up interesting results.
First of all i am sorry for my late answer but as i have posted in my other blog entry i was in Turkey the last week.
Christopher you are right if you ask how qualified they were. I have to say that one of them was pretty average compared to the standard Austrian SW - Developer Scala. The second one was really good the only issue was that he came from the US and of course expected some nice Relocation Package that we couldn't offer.
I agree with your arrangement for highly qualified people and like your purpose to change the traditional pattern. Maybe we should try it again.
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