How To Hire Great Software Engineers

A guide to hiring in one of the toughest job markets in the world

Chris Cooney
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readJul 13, 2021

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The software jobs market has descended into an absurd free-for-all. Recruiters are pulling tricks that would make other industries clutch their pearls. Companies are literally destabilizing local economies to try and attract software talent. This is a side effect of the insane demand that the…

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