Changed my Mind - Google may not be so innocent!
For the past few months, it’s been *impossible* to find developers. Specifically: experienced, creative, energetic, open-source active LAMP developers. We’ve been trying since February, and were lucky to get the _one_ that we found.
Then today, I was discussing the employment situation and my current options with Neil, and he shared a fascinating theory: Google is sucking up all the good talent in NYC.
The evidence, he cites is: this revealing nugget .
So, it looks like they’re tripling their space, then tripling their staff! It was hard enough to find people a year ago, and now the competition for candidates has increased rediculously! Of course if Google offers a job, you say yes, but what do the rest of us do??
I’m betting all the job boards (Joel’s included) are making a killing these days! So many people need to fill out their teams, and can’t find the people to do it!