Archive for September, 2008
24 Sep, 2008
Time and Resources Analysis of a Recruitment Exercise
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I got around to thinking about the amount of effort that goes behind a recruitment exercise at Directi and I thought to pen down an article which details out a recruitment scenario and the effort / resources involved. The purpose to pen this down was to get an idea of the time, cost and people involvement per candidate. This in turn will enable us to -
- Set expectations in terms of targets of the number of interviews one can conduct per week
- Determine direct cost of an interview process
- Determine the opportunity cost of an interview process
- Improvise our recruitment process and make it more efficient
The article turned out to be a 1600+ word count multi-page article which I have posted on our Directi Wiki under the Recruitment University
Anyone involved in recruitment should read it. The article is available at - http://wiki.directi.com/x/TwDK
PS: If you wish to apply for a job at Directi, visit our careers portal at http://careers.directi.com
11 Sep, 2008
Availability of Developers by City (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi etc) and Technology (Java, C++, C#, AIR, WPF etc)
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An alltime favorite question amongst journalists who interview me as a “young entrepreneur” has been - “Tell us about some of the challenges you faced while growing Directi?” and my patent answer has always been that the only challenge we have faced and continue to face is finding good talent. In our bid for finding talent we are now expanding into other cities over the next few months.
In order to determine tech labor availability across the common metro cities in India I compiled a statistical comparison of the count of resumes available on common jobsites for common software development skillsets in the various cities in India, and the findings are very interesting. This blog post compiles these findings. If you are a tech company in India - these findings can help you make technology decisions concerning city selection and platform selection.
The findings
Below are findings from the comparison of the count of resumes of software developers with 0-4 yrs of experience from various cities in India as compiled from a jobsite -
1. Findings by City
- Bangalore has 2.5 times the number of Java resumes of Mumbai
- In terms of total resumes from each city the ranking is in the following order - Bangalore, Hyderabad, NCR, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, and lastly Mumbai
- As an example, here is the citywise count of Resumes that contained the keyword Java
- Bangalore - 123,205
- Hyderabad- 114,561
- NCR - 85,347
- Chennai - 82459
- Pune - 54,086
- Delhi - 53,256
- Mumbai - 43,672
- Every city in India has more available developers than Mumbai with the South taking the lead
- NCR has almost twice the number of developers as Delhi
2. Findings by Technology
- The total count of Resumes of developers with 0-4 yrs experience that contain the below keywords across all 7 cities was -
- C++ - 635,575
- Java - 556,586
- C# - 190,872
- Javascript - 162,343
- Ajax - 41,219
- Flex - 8,668
- Python - 3,429
- Ruby - 2,099
- WPF - 779
- Silverlight - 255
- As you can see Java and C++ are the predominant keywords in Software Developer Resumes
- Flex beats Python and Ruby
- Ajax and Javascript beat Flex/WPF/Silverlight by several magnitudes as keywords appearing in resumes
The results above remain similar in terms of ratio, for Resumes with 4+ yrs of experience.
Click here to download the raw excel sheets for all cities and technologies >>
The methodology
I had my team conduct independent searches for each permutation and combination of the following -
- Keywords - Java, C#, C++, Javascript, Flex, Silverlight, WPF, Ajax, Actionscript, Ruby, Python
- Cities - Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, NCR (Noida/Gurgaon), Chennai, Hyderabad
- Experience - 0 to 4 yrs , 4+ yrs
- Function - Software Development (or equivalent)
- Jobsites - Naukri, Timejobs, Monster
- Date - 3rd June 2008
The above totals upto a whopping 462 searches :). I then tabulated the count of Resumes for each search and put it in multiple excel spreadsheets. You can download the spreadsheets to crunch the numbers yourself.
Based on the above data, Directi and .pw clearly need a presence in the south. The data also demonstrates the lack of penetration of RIA, especially Flex/Silverlight/AIR/WPF, amongst Indian developers.
Hopefully this data can help others make similar decisions. Meanwhile lookout Bangalore/NCR - we are in the process of making an appearance shortly
PS: Interested in joining Directi? - check our openings at http://careers.directi.com
4 Sep, 2008
Ethics in journalism and the Metcalfe law
Posted by Bhavin Turakhia | (2) Comments
I, alongwith my team, have spent the last two full days in fire-fighting, false and inaccurate, libelous and defamatory claims against Directi by a certain Garth Bruen at Knujon and Jart Armin and James Mcquad at Hostexploit, compounded multifold thanks to the Network effect of the Internet.
For the full story check out our post on the Directi blog - Our official response to inaccurate reports which falsely implicate the Directi Group
In short, Knujon and HostExploit published two independent online reports incorrectly linking Directi to certain miscreants responsible for fraudulent activities on the Internet. Their research was entirely flawed and their reports filled with factual inaccuracies.
Within record time, these posts were picked up by over 15 other news sites and reported as if accurate with additional conclusions left to the imagination of the respective journalists. What shocked me personally is neither the original posters (Garth / Jart / James) nor any of the journalists responsible for the follow-up aftermath extended a basic common courtesy of contacting us for comments, let alone for validating any of the claims. The whole episode has caused considerable irreversible damage to our reputation, ended up wasting significant resources within our organization, and left several misconceptions in the minds of thousands of readers worldwide concerning abuse on the Internet.
Journalism has existed way before the Internet, and a common ethical code of responsible reporting is assumed in this profession. With the Internet however the responsibility is significantly compounded, given the fact that any published story is now re-published multiple times, blogged about, indexed, archived, forwarded, shared, favorited, bookmarked, dugg, twitterred within moments of publication, repeatedly, by netizens worldwide, and all this information continues to exist in the cyberspace, google cache, browser cache, proxies, web archives, offline stores and many other sources - ad infinitum.
Anyone making any public claims / statements on the Internet now has significant power, and, in the words of Peter Parker - “With great power comes great responsibility”. I can only hope that the various reporters / news agencies who we have been in touch with, learn from this experience, and do not, in their haste to churn out the next sensational news story, ignore the fundamental tenets of responsible and ethical reporting.
