Why is it so hard to find good PMs and SWEs in Europe?
It‘s almost like 90% of the people that I interview have done an agile cert and consider themselves a PM because of it. The other large majority at least has SAFe certs or „Product Owner“ in their resume, so I can filter them out quickly to not consider.
It seems genuinely hard to find experienced Product Managers in Europe. What‘s even harder is finding software engineers who are actually more than programmers and take an active part in discovery activities.
Any tips or ideas on what to put in the job description or what the phrasing of job titles should look like to find the right people?
I was thinking about Product Software Engineer instead of Software Engineer, but I fear that this is not a common enough term for good candidates to find.
For Product Managers I already have HR filter out red flags as the ones I mentioned above, but any idea where the really good folks can be found?