On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Sidu Ponnappa <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you do your tests in Python, or whatever language the fresher >> knows? So far, we have not received a single resume mentioning Python. > Any object oriented language the candidate is comfortable with is fine > by us. Unit tests are, however, mandatory. TDD is a huge plus. > >> Question is, how much to pay? > Figure out who your competition in the hiring space is (this could be > very very different from your business competitors). Find out how much > they pay. Then do your best to pay more. For us, this means companies > like ThoughtWorks, Amazon and co. We try to pay salaries that are > close to these firms (though matching Amazon is still slightly beyond > us for now). > >> From the freshers point of view though, their friends making insane >> salaries at MNCs always make them dissatisfied. Any recommendations? > Yes - pay more than the MNCs or at least get close and compensate for > the delta with a brilliant work environment. Unfortunately, I have no > better answer than this. Folks typically evaluate a prospective > employer on salary, work environment (including how awesome > prospective colleagues are, how much they can learn, and how > transparent and honest the organisations is) and the work itself. > > There is no magic formula that allows you to hire better people while > paying significantly less than your competitors, but you can usually > swing it by being somewhere close on salary and doing better than them > on the last two parameters. Honestly, a small company that can't > trounce an MNC on work environment is doing something seriously wrong.
We have a rather good work environment. But trying to convince freshers of this is close to impossible, as they have inflated ideas about what the IT industry is really like. > >> There is also the tug of "Bangalore". > Identify why this is the case and look to plug the gaps. If the > attractiveness lies in the lifestyle, then you may wish to open up a > branch in Bangalore. I should warn you though that on the hiring > front, things are no better here :) Thanks Sidu. All of this is really good advice. Regards Rajeev J Sebastian _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
