Inside the War For Top Developer Talent

snydeq writes "With eight qualified candidates for every 10 openings, today's talented developers have their pick of perks, career paths, and more, InfoWorld reports in its inside look at some of the startups and development firms fueling the hottest market for coding talent the tech industry has ever seen. 'Every candidate we look at these days has an offer from at least one of the following companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Square, Pinterest, or Palantir,' says Box's Sam Schillace. 'If you want to play at a high level and recruit the best engineers, every single piece matters. You need to have a good story, compensate fairly, engage directly, and have a good culture they want to come work with. You need to make some kind of human connection. You have to do all of it, and you have to do all of it pretty well. Because everyone else is doing it pretty well.'"

Comments

Rockstar

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm looking for a rockstar developer!!!

You need to have 5 years experience (of a 4 years old) technology.

And you need to be very cheap.

Re: Top talent is always hard to find

[Anonymous Coward]

it's not an interesting company to work at unless all you're interested in is a stable income with lots of perks.

Yeah, I hate that. The last thing I want in this world is perks. Or income. Or stability.

...and no brown M&Ms!

[Dogtanian]

I'm looking for a rockstar developer!!!

Great stuff, I have fantastic "rockstar" developer credentials:-

* Regular user of both cocaine and heroin
* Drink Jack Daniels pretty much 24/7 (got a drip hooked up for when I need to sleep), can't remember the last time I was sober
* Throw 60" monitors out of boardroom windows
* Once sexually pleasured a lower-ranking female colleague with a red snapper fish (probably Not Safe For Work unless you Work with Rockstars like me) .

Was that what you were looking for?

And you need to be very cheap.

Fuck you, I cancelled my last programming tour because I was offered less than $1m a night and no guarantee of red-haired groupies with a proclivity for red snappers...