I live in Switzerland and I used to code for a living. As an external, I hire engineers for different startups in Zurich.<p>As I got deeper into IT-recruiting, I realised that candidate filtering at the top of the funnel is fundamentally broken.<p>The market for software engineers is different from the market for - let&#x27;s say - actors. Especially for senior developers there is way more demand than there is supply.<p>This has the very important implication that as a company you can not annoy candidates too much. Asking for tedious homework, too many coding challenges or references might be already overkill. Good people do not really need to work for you; they can also work for Google Zürich (biggest engineering office outside the US), or other cool tech-companies &#x2F; ETH-spinoffs.<p>If you look for a tech-job in the most liveable city in the world, check out my story &quot;8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT&quot; on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@iwaninzurich&#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@iwaninzurich&#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...</a> or send me a mail to the mail-address in my HN-profile.