Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
<i>It is nearly impossible to hire a good developer</i><p>[Sigh]<p>He's right. And it's getting worse. We have a bunch of open req's right now as we're staffing up a new project and you'd think with all the handwringing about the economy and how many great engineers are being laid off it would be easy, right? Nope. It actually seems like the quality of applicants has gone <i>down</i> since the last time I was interviewing people.<p>Out of all the people we've interviewed, there's ONE that I would say is a good hire (as opposed to just "can probably do the job with some hand-holding"), and the rest of the interview team is lukewarm on him. And this is after HR has screened out the bottom of the barrel and our technical phone screens have filtered out a few more. ONE person who's just a "nice to have" and there's a good chance we're going to pass on him.<p>If anyone here threatened to quit, at this point we'd probably chain him to his desk :-)