I have been having intrusive thoughts about starting a recruiting agency that vets all the applicant companies for not being absolute fuckers, and 100% of the engineering screening will be having a chill conversation about computing and video games, and maybe we pair program on something fun. The space seems so ripe for actual engineers to ruthlessly execute the current middlemen.
If that sounds cool, let me know @ the form below so I can justify full sending this:
My concern on the business end is that non-awful companies usually don’t need help recruiting
@toast I know some non-awful companies that really struggle, but you're right now that I think about it, it's less than half of them.
A few of them really, really profoundly struggle because for some reason they don't think of recruiting in the same way they think about the rest of their processes.
They just sorta slam a link up and then go "Oh my GOD how are all these people SO BAD at programming".
How can you have bad programmers when "anyone can learn to program" and "10x programmers don't exist"?
#DumbThingsSoftwareDevelopersSay
Of course if I suggested anyone pair program with me, I'd want them to suggest we do a pair analysis instead, which illustrates how important it is to know the screener understands your development views.
