OT: Frustated hiring here

[sdcellar]

Yep, in my experience, the most talented folks have pretty diverse technical backgrounds and can pretty much work on anything. Creating a pigeon hole and then lookly soley for those pigeons is fairly brain dead thinking in my estimation.

This isn’t to say that a guy who has a narrow skillset on his resume doesn’t have the capability to work on things outside of that, just that the hiring team needs to work that much harder to make the determination if he/she will be able to excel.

[DWCAP]

Not in the tech world, so cant comment specifically to the OP and why he has trouble finding the tallent he needs. But one line really got me.

“Why are you going to do this on our dime?”

Have you not allocated any dimes to continuing eduction, personal training, or something similar? None? Really? You want someone who can walk into a company, in what I am understanding is a very limited/new/hot/diverse market, and do everything perfectly from day one? Seriously? I am not a tech/computer guy, but I doubt you’ll ever find that.

Sounds more like a budgeting/expecations problem than a talent problem. Maybe your job is differnt FLU, but just about any other one I have ever heard of expects a learning curve for new hires.

[DWCAP]

Not in the tech world, so cant comment specifically to the OP and why he has trouble finding the tallent he needs. But one line really got me.

“Why are you going to do this on our dime?”

Have you not allocated any dimes to continuing eduction, personal training, or something similar? None? Really? You want someone who can walk into a company, in what I am understanding is a very limited/new/hot/diverse market, and do everything perfectly from day one? Seriously? I am not a tech/computer guy, but I doubt you’ll ever find that.

Sounds more like a budgeting/expecations problem than a talent problem. Maybe your job is differnt FLU, but just about any other one I have ever heard of expects a learning curve for new hires.

[DWCAP]

Not in the tech world, so cant comment specifically to the OP and why he has trouble finding the tallent he needs. But one line really got me.

“Why are you going to do this on our dime?”

Have you not allocated any dimes to continuing eduction, personal training, or something similar? None? Really? You want someone who can walk into a company, in what I am understanding is a very limited/new/hot/diverse market, and do everything perfectly from day one? Seriously? I am not a tech/computer guy, but I doubt you’ll ever find that.

Sounds more like a budgeting/expecations problem than a talent problem. Maybe your job is differnt FLU, but just about any other one I have ever heard of expects a learning curve for new hires.

[DWCAP]

Not in the tech world, so cant comment specifically to the OP and why he has trouble finding the tallent he needs. But one line really got me.

“Why are you going to do this on our dime?”

Have you not allocated any dimes to continuing eduction, personal training, or something similar? None? Really? You want someone who can walk into a company, in what I am understanding is a very limited/new/hot/diverse market, and do everything perfectly from day one? Seriously? I am not a tech/computer guy, but I doubt you’ll ever find that.

Sounds more like a budgeting/expecations problem than a talent problem. Maybe your job is differnt FLU, but just about any other one I have ever heard of expects a learning curve for new hires.

[DWCAP]

Not in the tech world, so cant comment specifically to the OP and why he has trouble finding the tallent he needs. But one line really got me.

“Why are you going to do this on our dime?”

Have you not allocated any dimes to continuing eduction, personal training, or something similar? None? Really? You want someone who can walk into a company, in what I am understanding is a very limited/new/hot/diverse market, and do everything perfectly from day one? Seriously? I am not a tech/computer guy, but I doubt you’ll ever find that.

Sounds more like a budgeting/expecations problem than a talent problem. Maybe your job is differnt FLU, but just about any other one I have ever heard of expects a learning curve for new hires.

[an]

[quote=sdcellar]Not apps, my friend, not apps. And that includes the built-in apps as well.

It’ll pay the bills, but the iPhone and Blackberry pretty much ate everybody else’s lunch. Most apps on other phones are just noise. If you’re lucky, you’re working on something that competes with those (Palm Pre comes to mind). If not, you better send your resume over to flu.[/quote]
Hahah, I thought it couldn’t get any better, but apparently, it could and did. Thanks for the laugh. I guess all MSFT employee should be updating their resume as well, since APPL is eating MSFT’s lunch too. My favorite quote of all “Most apps on other phones are just noise.“

[an]

[quote=sdcellar]Not apps, my friend, not apps. And that includes the built-in apps as well.

It’ll pay the bills, but the iPhone and Blackberry pretty much ate everybody else’s lunch. Most apps on other phones are just noise. If you’re lucky, you’re working on something that competes with those (Palm Pre comes to mind). If not, you better send your resume over to flu.[/quote]
Hahah, I thought it couldn’t get any better, but apparently, it could and did. Thanks for the laugh. I guess all MSFT employee should be updating their resume as well, since APPL is eating MSFT’s lunch too. My favorite quote of all “Most apps on other phones are just noise.“

[an]

[quote=sdcellar]Not apps, my friend, not apps. And that includes the built-in apps as well.

It’ll pay the bills, but the iPhone and Blackberry pretty much ate everybody else’s lunch. Most apps on other phones are just noise. If you’re lucky, you’re working on something that competes with those (Palm Pre comes to mind). If not, you better send your resume over to flu.[/quote]
Hahah, I thought it couldn’t get any better, but apparently, it could and did. Thanks for the laugh. I guess all MSFT employee should be updating their resume as well, since APPL is eating MSFT’s lunch too. My favorite quote of all “Most apps on other phones are just noise.“

[an]

[quote=sdcellar]Not apps, my friend, not apps. And that includes the built-in apps as well.

It’ll pay the bills, but the iPhone and Blackberry pretty much ate everybody else’s lunch. Most apps on other phones are just noise. If you’re lucky, you’re working on something that competes with those (Palm Pre comes to mind). If not, you better send your resume over to flu.[/quote]
Hahah, I thought it couldn’t get any better, but apparently, it could and did. Thanks for the laugh. I guess all MSFT employee should be updating their resume as well, since APPL is eating MSFT’s lunch too. My favorite quote of all “Most apps on other phones are just noise.“

[an]

[quote=sdcellar]Not apps, my friend, not apps. And that includes the built-in apps as well.

It’ll pay the bills, but the iPhone and Blackberry pretty much ate everybody else’s lunch. Most apps on other phones are just noise. If you’re lucky, you’re working on something that competes with those (Palm Pre comes to mind). If not, you better send your resume over to flu.[/quote]
Hahah, I thought it couldn’t get any better, but apparently, it could and did. Thanks for the laugh. I guess all MSFT employee should be updating their resume as well, since APPL is eating MSFT’s lunch too. My favorite quote of all “Most apps on other phones are just noise.“

[sdcellar]

Ahh, now we’re talking about a different kind of bubble.

Enjoy.

[sdcellar]

Ahh, now we’re talking about a different kind of bubble.

Enjoy.

[sdcellar]

Ahh, now we’re talking about a different kind of bubble.

Enjoy.

[sdcellar]

Ahh, now we’re talking about a different kind of bubble.

Enjoy.

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