Every manager out there trying to hire tech employees -- unless they are literally at FAANG et al -- is struggling. All the good talent is being hoovered up by companies paying twice what you can pay. Your company makes something boring so candidates aren't excited. You really, really need someone on your team... so you sell it. You talk about fun tech you're thinking of using as if you were actually using it. You downplay the mountain of tech debt. You pretend your systems aren't constantly on fire. You do everything you can to Close. The. Hire.
I don't know why anyone thinks this will work... maybe it does? Maybe the belief is that once you've got someone on board, and they've changed their insurance and set up their new 401k, and learned everyone's names, that they somehow won't notice that you lied to them? Or perhaps they'll tough it out for a year just to give it a fair shake, even though it's clearly not what they signed up for. I just don't know.
But it happens. It happens ALL THE TIME.
It would be great if we could find employers that are a good fit for what we, as technologists, want to spend our effort working on. But the employers are adversaries in that quest, not allies.
slotrans|3 years ago
Every manager out there trying to hire tech employees -- unless they are literally at FAANG et al -- is struggling. All the good talent is being hoovered up by companies paying twice what you can pay. Your company makes something boring so candidates aren't excited. You really, really need someone on your team... so you sell it. You talk about fun tech you're thinking of using as if you were actually using it. You downplay the mountain of tech debt. You pretend your systems aren't constantly on fire. You do everything you can to Close. The. Hire.
I don't know why anyone thinks this will work... maybe it does? Maybe the belief is that once you've got someone on board, and they've changed their insurance and set up their new 401k, and learned everyone's names, that they somehow won't notice that you lied to them? Or perhaps they'll tough it out for a year just to give it a fair shake, even though it's clearly not what they signed up for. I just don't know.
But it happens. It happens ALL THE TIME.
It would be great if we could find employers that are a good fit for what we, as technologists, want to spend our effort working on. But the employers are adversaries in that quest, not allies.