I am a creative, passionate, full stack web developer. I love technology! Currently I'm really into Node & React but I am very experienced in PHP, Drupal 8, accessibility, CI/CD #WomenWhoCode
Also I just had a quick look at your company website and noticed that you don't have any women on the development side. I cannot believe that with that many resumes, not one woman would be a fit for the job.
It's important to remember that candidates have a right to ask questions about career development, conferences, etc to see if it's even worth working for your company. If you answer in the way you have in this response I'm not surprised that some walk away.
Web Dev full-stack [LAMP] since 2005, but much heavier on the JS stuff these days.
Jack of all Stacks, Master of some.
Always looking to learn new things. Always glad to help out, just ask.
Location
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Education
B.S. in Biochemistry 2004, M.S. in Computer Information Systems 2007
Hey Charlotte, [as with the others, sorry for the late response, didn't realize i get notifications on here]
You're right, at this time we have no female devs on the team. We have in the past extended invitations to join us and we've had some great female devs apply, but it just didn't work out for one reason or another.
Anyone who applies has the same chances at the job.
I think a lot of applicants do assume all tech companies are like apple/google/amazon/facebook and expect to get the same perks. We just can't afford them all, is all. And it's fair that some people would walk away from that.
The one thing I know we offer a ton more of is experience on the job. We dive into a large number of platforms and codebases on a daily basis so all our devs learn a lot continuously. With larger companies you tend to get shoe-horned into a position and you end up doing the same type of work on the same platform day to day with not as much variety so you learn less.
At the same time it's also higher stress and faster paced than most dev jobs and that is sometimes an attractant or a repellent depending on the person.
I would recommend newbies work for small agencies because they will learn a lot more in a lot less time than if they go straight into a corporate job. Corporate will probably pay more though. Again, it depends on the person and what they want.
There are a lot of variables in play, so yea it extends the interview process because of that. We can't afford to just hire 50 people and fire half of them in six months like a lot of large companies do. We try to find the right person in one go or in batches, which may or may not be the best approach either. I don't know, i'm not in hiring anymore. I get to focus on the work now :)
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Also I just had a quick look at your company website and noticed that you don't have any women on the development side. I cannot believe that with that many resumes, not one woman would be a fit for the job.
It's important to remember that candidates have a right to ask questions about career development, conferences, etc to see if it's even worth working for your company. If you answer in the way you have in this response I'm not surprised that some walk away.
Hey Charlotte, [as with the others, sorry for the late response, didn't realize i get notifications on here]
You're right, at this time we have no female devs on the team. We have in the past extended invitations to join us and we've had some great female devs apply, but it just didn't work out for one reason or another.
Anyone who applies has the same chances at the job.
I think a lot of applicants do assume all tech companies are like apple/google/amazon/facebook and expect to get the same perks. We just can't afford them all, is all. And it's fair that some people would walk away from that.
The one thing I know we offer a ton more of is experience on the job. We dive into a large number of platforms and codebases on a daily basis so all our devs learn a lot continuously. With larger companies you tend to get shoe-horned into a position and you end up doing the same type of work on the same platform day to day with not as much variety so you learn less.
At the same time it's also higher stress and faster paced than most dev jobs and that is sometimes an attractant or a repellent depending on the person.
I would recommend newbies work for small agencies because they will learn a lot more in a lot less time than if they go straight into a corporate job. Corporate will probably pay more though. Again, it depends on the person and what they want.
There are a lot of variables in play, so yea it extends the interview process because of that. We can't afford to just hire 50 people and fire half of them in six months like a lot of large companies do. We try to find the right person in one go or in batches, which may or may not be the best approach either. I don't know, i'm not in hiring anymore. I get to focus on the work now :)