I’m not sure if anyone in the blogosphere has noticed but I’ve been off on hiatus for a while. I wish I could say that’s because I’ve been placed at a client where my rants have ceased and I am now experiencing software development nirvana. Sadly that’s not the case. Things have been busy, good busy and bad busy. On the good front I finished up a contract of over 3 years with a great company and have moved on to a new contract with a client that looks to have some fun problems to solve. On the not so good front my mother has been diagnosed with cancer in her lung, bones & adrenal gland. Hence, stuff has been taking priority over the old blog and I’ve been given clear vision of how unimportant my rants actually are. Don’t get me wrong, I still hate 400 line queries riddled with business logic – I just don’t hate them as much as cancer.
Despite my absence from cyberspace, as usual I’ve managed to have quite a few conversations about software design and have accumulated some blog-worthy thoughts. I’m hoping to find some time to get those ideas out of my head and onto the screen in the near future but they will be topics for another post. This post is about finding good developers and the hope that there are some out there who follow this blog.
The global services division of the company I work for has been granted an exclusive on about a dozen developer spots, an architecture spot and some PM/BA work for the client where they have placed me. Part of the value my company delivers in this type of engagement over traditional staffing is a promise to provide high quality candidates to cut down on the noise involved with the normal staffing process, i.e. hundreds of resumes from dozens of vendors. Because recruiters and sales people have difficulty sorting through the alphabet soup on a developer’s resume I often get injected into the candidate-requirement matching process to screen candidates and have conversations with hiring managers to see what they’re really working on. This is especially effective for clients I’ve actually worked for. So, as you can probably deduce, client with many spots to fill + Chad working for said client = Chad screening candidates during every free moment. Since I like designing and writing software a lot more than talking on the phone I’m anxious to get this distraction off my plate and return to my happy coding Zen. However, despite the tough economy it’s still relatively difficult to find really stellar developers.
So this is a casting call to anyone in the Minneapolis area (or anyone willing to fly in) that would consider themselves a senior Java developer or architect. There is work on several different projects and I believe all of the spots are 12 month. The client is in particular need of people with strong desktop Java experience. There are also spots on the web team but only a few. We’re also looking for an architect with good i18n experience that includes non-latin based. I’ll be screening for all of these spots and I can tell you that the client is fairly particular about who they bring in. I can also tell you that once they place someone they have no problem keeping a contractor on for 5 years. If you’re interested just send me your gear at chad_lavigne@yahoo.com.
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