[ale] question about hiring developers

[Chris Kleeschulte]

So I am an IT director for a company based in Phoenix, AZ. Really, I  
am a computer scientist would agreed to manage a team of 3  
developers. I have been in charge of hiring new people for our  
growing business, but I am really having a hard time finding people.  
Not just "qualified" people, just people in general.

I live in Atlanta and work from home, but upper management wants  
someone on site in AZ. I have advertised on Craig's and with the  
LUG's in the area. At this point, is it worth my time to go to  
monster and all the big job sites?

What are your feelings on how to hire quality people in general? I am  
a bit unskilled in selecting the right people. I had a pipe dream  
that offering a job with pay of over 60K would just bring in  
applicants. This job is all linux all day and programming in PHP,  
Ruby, Python. I would jump at this job if it were me needing a gig.

I have also checked what the market rate for this type of job should  
pay. This is a really rough estimate, but what should a programmer  
with imperative type programming experience (2-3 years) be paid?  I  
have friends on the Microsoft side that work as Exchange architects  
and they make 120K+. Is this high rate just an anomaly, or do people  
on the Microsoft really make that kind of coin?




	

Chris Kleeschulte



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