Computer Industry Recruitment Failures 9. Costs
Umm, has anyone mentioned yet how computer firms work within and between themselves?
Look I have no insight at all. But it seems to me that an industry which offers £400, enough income for a mortgaged week, per day… is working ineffectively. Not that they have a lack of staff—that they are working ineffectively. And bear in mind these £400 offers, which I presume are sincere—and last for say a week or so—bear in mind these offers are for coding in languages like PHP. Nothing against PHP, but unless I’m missing something here, this is no great shakes to me. I can think of plenty computing gear I would find harder to get right. And I can think of plenty computer coding where I would try more on than in PHP. I once called PHP “A pair of old slippers.” [Note: PHP has altered since the time I wrote this. I’ve not followed, so can’t make any current statement R.C.]
Not that I could do their job, I’m sure whoever takes these jobs is working hard. All the same.
What else besides the poaching and contracting (usually signs of inefficiency)? Well, I wouldn’t be party to much of it. In the computing industry, I don’t know how promotions work. I don’t know how much of the business is mercenary. But…
Well, there is that big issue—you know, the one that nobody wants to talk about. For lack of truth, try this,
How would you like it if someone moored a boat outside your office filled with 20 programmers from India?
Ah. Pulling right back from that bank (try ‘offshore’, ‘data haven’… similar searches), I am going to say this, and only this—that computing firms may be as cost‐cutting, asset‐stripping, thieving, usurious, and self‐defensively narcissistic as any modern firm.
The industry may speak out, but until you are ensured of their integrity on such issues, I suggest you cache your sympathy.
Onwards, Next