A lot could be said about IT recruitment. But nobody can deny it is currently a #recruitinghell . As a 2 decades old remote IT worker I have some thoughts about it.
- Companies are mostly looking for framework or library “monkeys”, not software engineers. They do not understand technology in general and just follow whatever is trendy in the industry at the moment.
- Companies often confuse years or “getting in contact” with a given programming language, a given framework or a particular library, with the level of expertise in each one or the level of expertise of the candidate in general.
- IT Recruiters do not spend enough time checking the candidate´s background, his skills, or his particular job or technology stack preferences. Very often they just randomly “shoot” dozens of emails to anyone that shows up on their Linkedin searches with the keywords “software” and “developer”.
- Feedback, or the lack of it! Roughly 8 out of 10 contacts do not provide any feedback. They ask you for contact details, they ask for your CV, they ask to to fill some form or skills questionary, they might even ask you about your pet name.
- Use an IT recruiter or a “specialized” IT recruitment company. Yes you read it right, it´s not a mistake or a typo. Do companies do not have HR departments anymore? It´s 2026, not 1990.
- The technical / code test. Oh my God, the test! This is probably the worst of all. I will dedicate another entire article to this one alone.
7 ) Sins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 altogether. Ok, i know, this is not really a sin on itself, but believe me, it happens, and i was not really sure about what to write here so…
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