Good answer. Thanks. Yes, that was an option - I'm going through a lot of options at the moment. Just completed another 12 month stint in a government department but miss the actual coding and have been doing a lot at home here. I'm considering options and writing a number of business plans. I just needed some sort of idea. I know "Senior" developers in Sydney are getting $150+ but they are C# or Java or even Ruby, I'm really not sure that Delphi developers, outside of our own community, consider Delphi even a Senior language. The perception is as you say, "drag and drop code zombies" and I'm afraid that's part of the beauty of Delphi, even those drag & drop coders can be productive in Delphi.
But I digress.... Steve On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy North <[email protected]>wrote: > If you are looking to hire, I suggest you be prepared to pay for a good > one. Make sure you have a good test though, my experience is that there are > a lot of "guru", "expert", "senior" Delphi developers out there that are > absolutely useless. Drag and drop code zombies. > > The last time we hired (about 15 months ago) we sifted through about 50 > (sometimes questionable) resumes and interviewed 8. Three of those walked > out of the test at various stages (one read it and left - said we wouldn't > like the answer he would give WTF!) and the test wasn't super hard - I > wrote it :-) (we were looking to fill a senior level position). It isn't > always about completing the test, but having a candidate acknowledge they > don't know something is 400% better than them trying to talk around it and > guess. > > At the end of the day, I don't consider any of the people I work with > "average" developers. I wouldn't like to work with average people. > > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Steve Peacocke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I was just wondering, what is the average salary for a permanent Delphi >> developer out there in the marketplace these days? >> >> Steve Peacocke >> Mobile: +64 220 612-611 >> Linkedin Professional >> Profile<http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe >
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