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James King

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

So really, if you treat somebody that they want to say and they feel support, that they feel heard, they are challenged, they're going to want to stay there.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

But I do think Steve brought up a very good point, especially with the new generation, is we as managers and leaders can no longer say a person is going to be a career person.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

They are job hopping.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

They want new challenges.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

They want to change things around.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

So we can't sit here and be like, well, I'm going to fence you in here because they're going to go quicker.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

Our job is I kind of treat it as, you know, a parent.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

You want your kids to do better than you.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

You want your employees to do better than you.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

A hundred percent.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

I'm actually going through interview processing right now for a position on my team.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And one thing I really love about where I work, you know, what we're doing with all the people on the IT team when they go through interview process is we make sure that it's clear to them that not only are we interviewing them to make sure they're a good fit for us, they need to be interviewing us.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And are we a good fit for them?

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And we tell them, when I talk to them, you know you should be interviewing us to make sure we're the right fit for you.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And we're providing every information we can that will help you make an educated decision.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And that just shows you that people, you have power.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

Yeah, you may be looking for a job, so you might feel like you don't have power, but you have power.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

And you've got to use it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

Especially as a programmer, like Steve said, we're very...

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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers

A lot of programmers are, you know, invert.