FW: joel - on hiring
Great post from joel on hiring the topn1%Quotes-
I hear this from almost every software company. "We hire the top 1% or
less," they all say.
Could they all be hiring the top 1%? Where are all the other 99%? General
Motors?
The top 0.5% usually have jobs. They have jobs where they do very well, so
their employers pay them lots of money and do whatever it takes to keep them
happy'
'
I'm exaggerating a lot, but the point is, when you select 1 out of 200
applicants, the other 199 don't give up and go into plumbing (although I
wish they would... plumbers are impossible to find). They apply again
somewhere else, and contribute to some other employer's self-delusions about
how selective they are.
By the way, it's because of this phenomenon—the fact that many of the great
people are never on the job market—that we are so aggressive about hiring
summer interns. This may be the last time these kids ever show up on the
open market. In fact we hunt down the smart CS students and individually beg
them to apply for an internship with us, because if you wait around to see
who sends you a resume, you're already missing out.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 11:25 AM
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