Re: [Haskell-cafe] How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

On 2 July 2010 11:56, JP Moresmau wrote:

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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When we are done we intend to write up a blog post more details, e.g. numbers and the range/distribution of experience among candidates. I hope that will be useful to people who are interested in hiring Haskell programmers.

It would also be useful to people who are interested in being hired as a Haskell programmer, so they know where to send the hitmen,

:-)

I mean, what to do to improve.

Yes, I hope it will also serve the purpose of providing useful feedback to those people who want it. For the majority of candidates who receive rejection letters it's always going to be hard and a disappointment. Some people will want details and others will just want to forget about it. In our recent recruitment we decided to go for relatively terse letters and we will provide more information about the kind of applications we got via our blog. So people who are interested will be able to see roughly where they were in the field and what kind of decision procedures were used. I've never done recruitment before so I don't know for sure, but hopefully that is a reasonable compromise between providing no feedback and forcing candidates to read long rejection letters with too much painful detail. Duncan