The 7 deadly sins of IT recruitment!

Paulo Cristo
8 min readSep 22, 2020

There are so many things wrong with IT recruitment and software development companies these days that i really don´t know where i should start. Certainly there is a lot more i would like to say, but to keep my sanity and to provide a light lecture experience to the reader i´m just gonna stay with the basics, i call it the 7 deadly sins of IT recruitment. Without further delay here´s my favourite list:

  • Deadly sin number 1: Companies are mostly looking for framework or library “monkeys”, not software engineers.
    They do not understand technology in general and just…

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Paulo Cristo

IT problem solver (aka; Software Engineer), Gym addict and Hobbyist Writer. Blockchain & Web3 believer. Talks about #remotework #itrecruitment #web3 #gamedev