Most companies are not willing to pay. In most cases they look for Seniors but want pay average market compensation. There are multiple issues with this approach.
- excellent senior developers already have golden handcuffs
- there is high opportunity cost for switching jobs when senior
- for average price you get average talent, people with empty years
You get far in the pipeline to discover that they will not pay enough. I got an offer a few months ago but I wanted an extra 100$ on daily rate to justify switch, but they decided against. The Project in question is already at risk, and they are trying to hire for months but HR want to save...
The second big problem is proving my abilities. Coding test might be good for baseline ability but you will not discover person leadership skills, organization, drive and mental health/strength. I have very little time to prep for advanced algorithm questions and my CS background is weak. My open source contributions are mostly drive by.
Third is the level of dysfunction in organization. On interview company would pretend how modern and forward thinking they are but in reality everything have yearly roadmap and pets servers on RHEL 5. Glassdoor is helpful but you can have great teams one part organization and terrible in another. By accident, you might join a manager building empire without interest in actual product. On the other side are teams driven by Product with painful level of tech dept.
The second big problem is proving my abilities. Coding test might be good for baseline ability but you will not discover person leadership skills, organization, drive and mental health/strength. I have very little time to prep for advanced algorithm questions and my CS background is weak. My open source contributions are mostly drive by.
Third is the level of dysfunction in organization. On interview company would pretend how modern and forward thinking they are but in reality everything have yearly roadmap and pets servers on RHEL 5. Glassdoor is helpful but you can have great teams one part organization and terrible in another. By accident, you might join a manager building empire without interest in actual product. On the other side are teams driven by Product with painful level of tech dept.