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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesWorld-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesPosted Dec 18, 2012 18:22 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones by khim Parent article: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones
Or do you live in the area where you can not find even 10 candidates in 6 months?This depends on the difficulty of the task. In my current role, we've been searching for candidates globally more or less continuously since I joined, with a multinational company's job search process behind it. The job requirements are arcane enough that applicants are few and far between, and successful applicants rarer yet. Now maybe we'd have lots of applicants if we could search Asimov's Galactic Empire, but unfortunately we don't have 25 million inhabited planets to add to our search process. We're stuck with this one. And this is not a terribly rare case. A lot of companies are hurting for qualified staff.
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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 18, 2012 20:18 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] The job requirements are arcane enough that applicants are few and far between, and successful applicants rarer yet. We had such problems in the past, too. If job requirements are so arcane then you can not find enough candidates then you need to change something. Sometimes you just need to pay more, sometimes you need to accept the fact that you'll be unable to find someone who satisfies your job requirements exactly and will need to broaden them (and then spend some effort to raise newbie to the original level of job requirements). What you should not do is to lower requirements arbitrarily in the middle of the interview process just to hire "somebody, anybody to fill this %#^%^&*@#@ vacancy". Once you understand that "10 years of experience working with Renderscript" is not something you actually need you suddenly find lots of suitable candidates. Enough if them to pick ones who can code and can talk with you meaningfully (I assume the position indeed has something to with programming: it's quite pointless to ask candidate to write code if you are hiring an art-director).
World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 19, 2012 21:19 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
> And this is not a terribly rare case. A lot of companies are hurting for qualified staff.
I wonder if this is due to the messes that underqualified staff hires from the past created.
World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 20, 2012 0:03 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Certainly not where I work :) in my experience, the places that hire underqualified staff are probably happy to continue to do so (they have a competence floor, but it's lower than the expert shops).
Or are you suggesting some way in which underqualified hires can somehow... breed other underqualified staff? In the absence of bogon supercolliders (or, well, actual human breeding) I don't see how that's possible. Am I missing your point?
World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 20, 2012 0:43 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> underqualified hires can somehow... breed other underqualified staff?
My experience is that underqualified hires kind of breeds more underqualified staff by the following process: more-qualified staff (QS) can't fix the messes done by the underqualified staff (US); QS gets overwhelmed with work requests (everyone wants QS on the job), its work becomes of lesser quality (effectively turninq QS into an overworked US); time passes and US gets more and more UNDERwhelmed with work requests and this affects QS's motivation to work (I work well, people put me to work a lot, and I can't take my vacations with my children because they put the payroll system under my responsability, etc... while Joe surfs the web the whole day, never leave one minute and a half past five and takes the whole July vacationing.) driving QS's work quality still further down, etc. etc...
World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 20, 2012 3:23 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
> Or are you suggesting some way in which underqualified hires can somehow... breed other underqualified staff? In the absence of bogon supercolliders (or, well, actual human breeding) I don't see how that's possible. Am I missing your point?
I read "companies are really needing qualified staff" and wondered if the need was caused by the process of cleaning up the unqualified staff's messes. The unwritten part was "if companies hadn't hired unqualified staff in the first place, maybe they wouldn't need 10 competent people, just one or two".
World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 20, 2012 14:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Ah. That's true enough, though it's amazing how much mess even one qualified person can clean up (though 'qualified' is really the wrong word: 'competent and motivated' is more important).
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