A hired programmer: a look from recruiters and programmers themselves

As the programmer recruiter sees

On Work.ua, about 12% of vacancies are posted for the IT sector, and 42% of them are for programmers. Undoubtedly, programmers are in demand today, which Galina Kalysh, an IT recruiter, knows firsthand. She compares the programmers during the hiring process with the suitors, and identifies 5 types of such suitors.
1. Alphonse or walking

They will always go where it is better, more beautiful, where they pay better and better buns.
2. Lovers

They can be in love with a company or a vacancy, and at the interview they will say everything that a recruiter wants to hear, just to get a job. But such a specialist can be quickly lost, because love can quickly pass.
3. Self-confident

These are not team players, but rather lonely loners, whom it is desirable to carry on hands, otherwise they will go to where the pedestal is prepared.
4. Quiet maniacs or "introverts"

One of the most difficult types of programmers: they don’t tell what they want, they are difficult to understand, and finding a common language is even more so.
5. In-flight

According to the experience of recruiters, there are interviews that random people fall into. Most often, they pass on a dispute or curiosity for the sake of. It's a shame if they go through all levels of interviews, get a job, and only then reveal their true intentions.

As a programmer sees a programmer

“What programmers want” is a rhetorical question like “What women want.” Because basically programmers, like women, simply don’t know what they want, ”Alexei Retyunin compares programmers with women and identifies 6 characteristic types of colleagues.
1. Priestesses of love

Luring them is easy enough: for $ 100 they’re ready to go to any company. But the problem is different, because a neighbor can offer 200 dollars. Yes, and what trace they will leave in the project after their departure, and how long it will take to fix it is a mystery.
2. Glamorous kitties

Representatives of this class are chasing after everything new and brilliant: stuffing from new technologies at the latest frameworks is the trump card in negotiations with them. If you write in Java 7, they will not come to you for anything, but if you write in Java 8, they will come running with pleasure, and it does not matter what you are developing at all. But their migrations to all new frameworks do not end, you need to be prepared for this.
3. Vanilla

These programmers are very difficult to lure, because they are very loyal to their employers, they do not care what to do and on what, the main thing is the surroundings (team, buns, communications). They have one more peculiarity: often they cannot explain what they want.
4. Shopaholics

These collectible buns, they know their worth, and in general they are universal soldiers who can do almost anything. And they really need to constantly add buns.
5. Punks

The most mysterious representatives who struggle with the system and the mainstream love to write on some esoteric systems, and, it is important to note, they often do it superbly. For them, their favorite technology and work is a priority, and not the working conditions and the number of buns.
6. Strong independent women

They usually agree on everything, without special ambitions, ask a little, do not spoil anything, but at the same time they rarely “create” it.


Often, programmers and recruiters speak different languages: some in Russian, some in C #, some in English, some in Java. Work.ua wants both one and the other to always find a common language, understanding and to do their work with inspiration.