[DUG] Average Salary

[Steve Peacocke]

Good answer. Thanks.

Yes, that was an option - I'm going through a lot of options at the moment.
Just completed another 12 month stint in a government department but miss
the actual coding and have been doing a lot at home here. I'm considering
options and writing a number of business plans. I just needed some sort of
idea. I know "Senior" developers in Sydney are getting $150+ but they are
C# or Java or even Ruby, I'm really not sure that Delphi developers,
outside of our own community, consider Delphi even a Senior language. The
perception is as you say, "drag and drop code zombies" and I'm afraid
that's part of the beauty of Delphi, even those drag & drop coders can be
productive in Delphi.

But I digress....

Steve

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy North <jeremy.north at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you are looking to hire, I suggest you be prepared to pay for a good
> one. Make sure you have a good test though, my experience is that there are
> a lot of "guru", "expert", "senior" Delphi developers out there that are
> absolutely useless. Drag and drop code zombies.
>
> The last time we hired (about 15 months ago) we sifted through about 50
> (sometimes questionable) resumes and interviewed 8. Three of those walked
> out of the test at various stages (one read it and left - said we wouldn't
> like the answer he would give WTF!) and the test wasn't super hard - I
> wrote it :-) (we were looking to fill a senior level position). It isn't
> always about completing the test, but having a candidate acknowledge they
> don't know something is 400% better than them trying to talk around it and
> guess.
>
> At the end of the day, I don't consider any of the people I work with
> "average" developers. I wouldn't like to work with average people.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I was just wondering, what is the average salary for a permanent Delphi
>> developer out there in the marketplace these days?
>>
>> Steve Peacocke
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