It's funny that I had the reverse response. Your post makes you sound like a dick and he sounds like someone who is being totally reasonable. He's looking for excellent people that will fit in well with his team (i.e. won't waste time, has sufficient energy and passion, thinks clearly, communicates well and doesn't sit around loathing their career). Technical skills are important, but putting together a successful team takes more than that. And even if it didn't, it only makes sense, given a pile of resumes with roughly equivalent skills, to filter out the people you don't like to be around. Sucks if you need the job and you're not that type of person, but that's life.
Then talk to me about the advantages of working for you. If I'm to work for you for the money, then state that you are offering $200K/year. If I'm interested in health care, then you should have some health insurance package. A good one probably.
I'm skilled, you can see that from the projects I did, worked on, my blog, Github and source code.
Then hire me for a couple of months and see how I fit in the team. Certainly, you should apply your hiring skills to figure out if I'll be a right fit, otherwise you'll waste lots of time hiring/firing/figuring.
Hiring someone for a couple of months just to see how they fit in the team seems the very definition of "wasting lots of time". Nice for you, you get a few months work. Totally sucks for everyone around you if it doesn't work out.
This works when you've narrowed down the candidates to single digits. When you have a pool of dozens, however, you need some way to screen them. He is sharing his screening methods, not his methods of attracting talent (eg, salary, health care, etc). That is an entirely different matter.
csomar's response is, IMHO, the right reaction to the blog post author's rambling.
What I've found out by experience is that usually recruiters with such restricting requirements aren't ready to back up said requests with the appropriate money. He wants top notch, highly motivated talent. How much is he willing to pay? That's definitely a part of the equation but he's not even mentioning it. If he offers 200-300% the market price then he's right to ask that much skill and dedication, otherwise his pretenses are absolutely unjustified.
- I don't get that he's asking for the moon. He just wants competent people who have a reason to work beyond money and aren't going to be a PITA to him and his team. That seems pretty fundamental to me. Why should it command double or triple an average salary? I don't get it.
- The market will decide. If what he's looking for is rare, he'll have to pay more to get it. If it's not, he'll pay the going rate. Uninformed speculation about what he may or may not be spending on talent seems pointless.
No. He is being an ass in the way he is stating it.
- You send me a stupidly long resume
- forget it. You have annoyed me
- More likely, I will ignore the whole thing
- If you can’t nail it in one sentence, do I really want to look forward to your rambling emails every day?
WOW. Okay Sir. Something else? Now there is nothing wrong with what he is asking for. Can you tell that politely
- Please send me a short and concise resume. Include x, y, and z. That's what matter for me.
- Long emails won't be read fully, because I'm short on time. I might not answer your email because I get lot of them, and I just can't answer them all.
- This doesn't mean your email is not important. It is. Please send it. We'll be in touch.
I think you are missing the point that this is simply intended to provide insight into what is going on inside the head of the person who is doing the hiring. They might be excruciatingly polite in what they say to you directly and personally, but in their mind they are thinking "Why is this fool wasting my time with this stupidly long resume." He's telling the world in blunt terms the reality of what it takes to get hired and how people are going to see you. He's not composing a personal letter to you.
The article's author is just breathing "I'm a dick." There's no need to word the things like he does. "You've annoyed me." Really? Sounds like a drama queen. He should smoke a bowl and get laid once in awhile.
If you want to hire talented people who will carry your company to the top, tone is important. It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
This title could have been written in inverted form: "Why I Will Hire You". Whether someone uses exclusionary or inclusionary principles says a lot about their character to me. It's always good to look out for yourself, and I don't advocate hiring incompetent people, but I'm really thrilled with the people that work around me, and I would never talk to them like this guy does. Never.
well if he wants people who "aren't going to be a PITA to him and his team" He (and I bet its a he) is going to have to stop presenting as such a PITA to work for.
More often than not programmers, even the very good ones, have never learn how to sell themselves. So, they end up working for a fraction of their real value. If this guy ever found someone good via this method, it's almost certainly one of that kind.
