Good answer. Thanks.<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But I digress....</div><div><div><br>Steve </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy North <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.north@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeremy.north@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Steve Peacocke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@peacocke.net" target="_blank">steve@peacocke.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I was just wondering, what is the average salary for a permanent Delphi developer out there in the marketplace these days?<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br>
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