Discussing hiring

content/thoughts/hiring-so-wrong/hiring.drawio

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content/thoughts/hiring-so-wrong/index.md

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+title = "Hiring So Wrong..."
+date = 2020-04-20
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["work", "hiring"]
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+
+Today I found this [article by Neil Sainsbury on hiring
+coders](https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-myth) and how the process is
+wrong. While I agree that the whole process is nothing more than red tape, I
+don't think the problem is what the article actually says.
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+The point Sainsbury makes is that we lack empathy when hiring. While I may
+have got this wrong -- as in "We lack empathy to understand people" instead of
+"We lack empathy to give people some chance" -- I believe the problem is that
+hiring is done by managers, not coders.
+
+I'm not going to bash managers here -- I worked with pretty damn good managers
+but also some awful -- I believe the problem is that managers don't actually
+understand what coding actually is. Heck, I don't believe _we_ understand what
+coding actually is.
+
+Here, let me show you this with Venn diagrams -- 'cause Venn diagrams are
+awesome.
+
+Imagine there is a company hiring developers. They have a set of necessities
+they want to fulfil:
+
+![The set of things a company works on and requires](requirements.png)
+
+And then we have the developer skills:
+
+![The set of skills a developer have](skills.png)
+
+... which is not what a company actually wants. What they want (or should
+want) is actually the size of the developer _phenomenological field_. This
+field describes the experiences someone had.
+
+Imagine two developers: Developer A spent the last 5 years working on the same
+field (let's say, mobile, or web development), using the same technology (say,
+Java, or React); developer B has done a bit of everything: they worked on the
+backend in two different languages, played a bit with three different
+JavaScript frameworks and did some play with different languages. Both have
+the same time in the field, and one could claim that A is a senior developer
+'cause they spent so much time in the same field, they probably know
+everything about it. But the fact is, when you check their phenomenological
+areas, you get something like
+
+![not in scale](phenomenological.png)
+
+What we actually have is that A is an _full_ worker, while B is
+actually a _senior_[^1].
+
+But nevermind, 'cause what we actually want is to fulfil the spot with someone
+that matches our requirements, right?
+
+Developer B, 'cause we experienced a lot but never got deep into anything,
+would have a match like
+
+![](dev-b.png)
+
+But developer A actually fits like this
+
+![](dev-a.png)
+
+---
+
+[^1]: I once said that what made a difference between full and seniors is the
+  amount of crap they had to deal with.