So, how do you hire people? Well, in the days when programmers were worth their weight in gold, you had to somehow test all the four applicants that sent you
Programmers today are indeed not worth their weight in gold - but *excellent* programmers are.
In fact, I claim that excellent programmers are worth more now - no one has the money to waste on half-bad ones anymore and you are actualy accepted to show results. Does the phrase: "I'm not rich enough to buy cheaply" sounds famielir?
CVs. But these days, that you have 4000 applicants for every job, including ones that don't even fit *one* of the requirements, you have to find heuristics that will cut the numbers down to manageable size which you *can* test. A BSc is such a heuristic. So it discriminates against the few clueful non-academics. How would you do it, if you had to contend with thousands of CVs?
Again, excellent programmers have not become any less scarce - just the noise has grown.
The general way to sift through 4000 application is to not ask for them to begin with and instead to pre-select the people and places that you choose to send your message to. For example, by posting to lists lke linux-il, as opposed to the general press, for example or simply hire a proffesional to do it for you.
Gilad
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