[ale] question about hiring developers

Atlanta Geek atlantageek at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 14:40:54 EDT 2008


When we were hiring 1.5 years ago it was difficult to find a perl guy
at <$70,000 here in Atlanta even though the work environment was good
back then.



On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> You should compare the cost of living in Phoenix Arizona.
>
> At the current gas rate here in Atlanta, $60k could be a bit low.
> Especially if the
> job requires driving into the office each an every day.  Luckily I
> stopped that madness
> years ago.
>
> I thought that if I did ever look for another job that I would do
> something radical and request compensation based on my expenses.  If
> they really want me onsite then my compensation will be higher due to
> $4/gal gas.  If I'm at home then I can pass those savings on to my
> employer.  Maybe when the employer has to pay for gas they are open to
> ways to save that money.
>
> I don't want to upset job lookers here but what you might want to try is
> to post the job
> and not post the salary.  See what hits you get and make decisions based
> on that.  If you get now hits then possibly there are no qualified
> people in Phoenix.  If you do get hits then you need to tell management
> that they need to either look for another developer in another city to
> work remote or raise their rate.
>
>
> Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
>> So I am an IT director for a company based in Phoenix, AZ. Really, I
>> am a computer scientist would agreed to manage a team of 3 developers.
>> I have been in charge of hiring new people for our growing business,
>> but I am really having a hard time finding people. Not just
>> "qualified" people, just people in general.
>>
>> I live in Atlanta and work from home, but upper management wants
>> someone on site in AZ. I have advertised on Craig's and with the LUG's
>> in the area. At this point, is it worth my time to go to monster and
>> all the big job sites?
>>
>> What are your feelings on how to hire quality people in general? I am
>> a bit unskilled in selecting the right people. I had a pipe dream that
>> offering a job with pay of over 60K would just bring in applicants.
>> This job is all linux all day and programming in PHP, Ruby, Python. I
>> would jump at this job if it were me needing a gig.
>>
>> I have also checked what the market rate for this type of job should
>> pay. This is a really rough estimate, but what should a programmer
>> with imperative type programming experience (2-3 years) be paid?  I
>> have friends on the Microsoft side that work as Exchange architects
>> and they make 120K+. Is this high rate just an anomaly, or do people
>> on the Microsoft really make that kind of coin?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris Kleeschulte
>>
>>
>>
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