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You Need Better Senior Software Developers

9 pointsby tndlalmost 6 years ago

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tracker1almost 6 years ago
The single biggest issue I&#x27;ve seen is often a trend towards only hiring people using the exact tooling that a given manager and other members have been comfortable with. This has made it nearly impossible to hire say, a Jr-Mid developer with C#, ASP.Net MVC and React&#x2F;JavaScript. This is as opposed to hiring for the harder skill, favoring those with demonstrated history of learning new (to them) tech.<p>I tend to favor people who have worked on personal projects and taken the time to learn new&#x2F;different tech. If there&#x27;s even a 50% overlap with the existing tech, even better. But it&#x27;s actually really hard to convey this to either recruiters or upper management.<p>The worst still is dealing with other Software Architects in the org who pretty much refuse to try anything too different.