I don't get it. Are they also having a hard time hiring people or something? As for your premise of "who the fuck are you trying to hire, here? Exclusively people... without families?", I don't see weird about that. If you're a company of a dozen or so people, it doesn't seem too hard to find a bunch of 22-30 year olds with very little commitments.
Understandable. There was a lot of context I left out because it wasn't too interesting and I wanted to keep things under a billion words so I just mentioned the similarities with the linked article.
As for your premise of "who the fuck are you trying
to hire, here? Exclusively people... without families?",
I don't see weird about that.
Yes, they are having a difficult time finding and keeping people, particularly experienced ones.
The product involves a large-ish amount of customer data, and our experience was that recent grads and "people that just did a 4-week 'Code Camp' style course" are particularly unsuited for that kind of work: they can write basic CRUD till the cows come home, but they know nothing about performance/scaling.
(Best-case scenario: they know they know nothing. More typical scenario: they think they know...)
If you're a company of a dozen or so people, it
doesn't seem too hard to find a bunch of 22-30
year olds with very little commitments.
Depending on your jurisdiction it's likely downright illegal to discriminate against employees or prospective employees based on them having families.
But even from a pure self-interest standpoint, if you're strictly hiring people without families you're ignoring a big chunk of the talent pool and if a company's having problems hiring, perhaps that's something that should be re-evaluated.
FWIW, note that I am using "family" here to mean "having any family members whatsoever" -- I'm not just talking about people with children. I don't even have children, myself. But I have family. They die, get married, etc.
