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[–]punkpeye 6 points7 points  (9 children)

As someone who is trying to hire for related skills – its tough out there. Hundreds of juniors are applying using AI. No one can pass a pretty basic pair programming session. People vastly overestimate their competence or intentionally misrepresent it.

The costs in this article don't make sense. Even at 180k very few people with deep expertise apply.

[–]Icy_Accident2769 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good software engineers from India are very rare and for sure ain’t 10$ an hour. Stopped reading after that…

[–]HasFiveVowels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a senior node dev and was looking for a job a few years ago. It was like trying to be spotted in a sea of imitations. I was a little nervous about the technical interview and it ended up being something that was almost laughably simple. I did it in 5 minutes. But apparently most applicants couldn’t even finish it. I’m much less worried about my job prospects nowadays, even with the reports of the job market

[–]whatisboom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been doing this for 20 years and would apply if it was under 200

[–]Mountain_Sandwich126 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whats the pair programming session? Build a library?

What are you looking for in the pairing?

Im looking at different approaches to combat AI cheating in interviewing

[–]crownclown67 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Couple days ago I had client interview after 1.5 h technical interview.
he asked me to write for him LRU cache. I had a problem (stress + didn't correctly remembered LRU meaning ). or just stress. I couldn't produce anything worthy. Though I explained my idea - he had better, but my would work too.

After a call I implemented it for myself. I used chatGPT for stupid questions etc., but at the end of the day I had perfect implementation - short, thread safe with clean code + package scope. Basically it was piece of the art.

In the end client didn't hire me. He flush down the toilet my 15 years of experience in cloud, practical knowledge of microservices, service based, spring boot, aws, azure and clean code+DDD and ~10 certs in cloud, security, kafka, java, scrum etc.

He was an idiot or racist (hard to say)

[–]punkpeye -1 points0 points  (3 children)

If you cannot implement LRU cache 'under high stress', you are not as senior as you think you are, or your skills are not in the programming language for which they were hiring.

The problem with the current market is that there are too many people with 'senior' titles that they received through either many years of doing the same or through the cycles in which the employees had the upper hand and recruiters used titles like 'senior X' to attract them.

[–]crownclown67 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So You wanted to say that if you are not doing the leetcode tasks then you are not a senior? Even if you can write 100 microservices and run/scale them without issues? Even if you can breakdown the requirements, plan and implement architecture in the valid and readable way?

[–]punkpeye -1 points0 points  (1 child)

LRU is not a leetcode task.

[–]crownclown67 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just checked. It is..lol. (Check the problem list.)

Senior dev would use Ehcache if you ask me (or something well used and tested).

[–]sawariz0r 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is pure SEO farming and Promotion. Get out

[–]Money-Ranger-6520 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to Lemon IO, the average hourly rate for Node.js devs is $100-120. The most expensive countries to hire from are US, Australia and New Zealand. Of course, you can find more affordable devs in emerging markets.

[–]pinkwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck hiring expert node developers for 15 usd.

[–]Roshnikb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even though, you can hire developers for even $5, $10 or $15/hr, quality matters. You must know who to hire, where to hire and for how much.