Nicholas Reville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I hope this is an OK spot for this question: ... > We're looking to expand our development team, but we haven't been > getting enough top-quality applicants. I was wondering if anyone > here has suggestions for where we can post or list these job > openings. This is the job description:
Yes, this is OK, as is http://www.python.org/community/jobs/ as Roy suggested, most mailing lists of local Python interest groups (I'm not sure they ALL welcome Python-related job offers, but I do know that applies to the ones I read, both Italian and US ones), and so on. The real problem, though, is that the job market for really top-notch Python developers is getting really squeezed these days -- around here, for example, "big-name" firms such as Google, BitTorrent, Pixar and Industrial Lights and Magic suddenly find themselves in pretty hot competition for a pool of talent that can't grow fast enough to accomodate the demand. You appear to be ready to hire people anywhere in the world, which puts you in a much stronger competitive position. I know quite a few people I'd just *LOVE* to hire... save for the fact that I just can't convince them to move (in fact, in some cases, thanks to the delightful situation with H1B visas, even if I _could_ convince them, it would still be WAY uphill from there, darn). Unfortunately, I entirely understand _why_ most software development firms prefer face-to-face employees: when I found myself, back when I was a freelance consultant, alternatively working remotely for some time, and at the client's office for another part of the time, I saw my productivity soar by 3-4 times when I was working locally, physically right next to the rest of the team, rather than remotely -- nowadays, open-source projects have discovered the same issue, which is why they have "sprints" with everybody gathering in the same place, where SO much more good work gets done than when everybody's connected to each other only via the net... Alistair Cockburn makes similar observations in his book "Agile Software Development", how it seems projects can be truly agile only if the team is co-located... ah well:-(. It would be SO much more convenient, for workers and firms both, if reality would be so kind to us as to be different!-) Anyway, best of luck! Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
