We’re experiencing a huge brain drain in the recent months. In June, there was tons of developers ready for hire, and now there is none. We’ve gone months without a new hire for a developer, and now we’ve resorted to off shore development to China as a result.

We have jobs available, but there’s no star programmers in the bay area around. We’ve worked with several tech recruiters, craigslist, dice, monster, etc.

And you wonder why people offshore jobs. It’s not to just save money, but it’s also because there’s no freaking talent here.

Also, the degree is great, but what we look for is application of your degree – if you can demonstrate that you’ve done something with what you’ve learned from school, that’s what matters to me the most. I’ve looked through over 75 resumes in three or four months, and people are either overqualified (they come from a management background as opposed to engineering and want to do just management) or completely underqualified (no real experience or knowledge of design patterns, portfolio, understanding of object orientated programming, etc.)