Recruitment and Selection of high performing programmers
What could be more important for a technology company than great software? High performing software developers and their teams. After all, they are the ones who actually create and maintain that great software.
One can find a compelling illustration of these data on (Oram and Wilson 2010). Two organizations, similar resources, similar goal, vastly different performance:
Recruitment is the process of finding potential candidates to apply for a job position, whereas selection is the process of identifying the best candidate to hire. (Team 2023)
To find high performing candidates, you need to find markers of belonging to some high performing culture. Usually something that is very hard to master and that the marketplace ignores is a good bet. As an exapmle, for backend developers, one might look for:
For instance, a (GMA + Integrity + Conscientiousness + Structured interview + Work Sample) combo should take at most 3 hours from the candidate and 1 from your team.
