Demand for Programmers Hits Full Boil as U.S. Job Market Simmers
- Companies turn to homegrown apprentices to meet demand
- Mapbox finds success with women coders who refer friends
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Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to U.S. economic growth right now: a scarcity of technology talent.
Trofimenko, head of technical recruiting at Mapbox, a developer of mapping and navigation software, has 10 people on her team out a total of 339 employees. Rihn, vice president of recruiting at Zillow Group Inc. in Seattle, has a staff of 100 for about 3,200 workers at the real-estate website operator. Those ratios, about one recruiter for about every 30 employees, compare with about one per 100 at many companies.