https://medium.com/@owencjones/how-to-attract-genuinely-good-staff-in-it-8278f824e739

Worthy of note: This piece isn’t about my current employer, who manage to be remarkably good at this stuff, it’s about my experiences in software in general.

There is a problem with IT recruitment. Companies that need good staff have to consider a million different factors, from location to person specifications, considering remote offices to remuneration packages — all to ensure they get better than average standard of staff. If you have a challenging problem to solve, and need good staff to do it, you need to attract and retain those staff, and that’s harder than it can seem.