Koodiapinaa koijataan

Huomenna minua tenttaa kaveri joka oli viisitoista vuotta sitten erään ohjelmistotuotteen pääkehittäjä. Kontaktini ryhmän sisällä kehotti minua kertaamaan vanhan klassikon sekä graafiteorian perusalgoritmit. Hän sattuu kuitenkin olemaan entinen UBC:n ohjelmointitiimin jäsen. Minulla, suurten linjojen miehellä, joka olen ulkoistanut koodauksen alamaisilleni jo ajat sitten, ei tule olemaan pienintäkään jakoa näillä kinkereillä. Näin asiasta toteaa tutkimusryhmän päällikkö:

Because of the timing of events, we are in a tricky situation, which I’ll outline:

• You have an open offer with a team that has official head count
• We have no headcount, but can almost always make successful appeals for a hire under the proviso of “exceptional talent”
• In order to make such an appeal successfully, we essentially have to claim that there exists an opportunity to hire a high-calibre individual who would ordinarily be lost to the company (i.e. there is no other vector to get them on board). This is manifestly and rather publicly not the case as things stand right now.

How things must resolve, going forward, is along these lines:

• You must decide whether the job offer you have on the table is attractive enough compared to your current and prospective opportunities.
• If you decide “yes”, then you’re in and we’re done.
• If you decide “no”, then you need to reject the offer, essentially ‘risking losing you’. At which point I can make my appeal.

Please think carefully about the offer on the table, as it’s concrete, whereas there are no guarantees of success if I make petition for new headcount, despite a history of success of all such previous requests. So, I would suggest that you make your decision as much as possible in consideration of the offered role and whether it is really what you are looking for, rather than assuming we can necessarily make an additional offer (though I hope you get the picture that we would attempt to do so if our interviews tomorrow go well and you reject your existing offer).

Päätös kahden sosialidemokratian välillä täytyy suorittaa perjantaina. Taidan saada katarrin.