On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:07:13AM -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:
> This has been gratifying to me personally and seems (to me) to say
> Perl is desirable.
[snip]
> Then, even nicer, the recruiters have started to call me. I posted
> my "availability profile" and the phone is ringing a lot. I'm a Perl
> programmer with background in QA, documentation, a little C. No C++,
> no Java, I don't do Windows. And I got a dozen calls yesterday
> alone. Two this morning before 9am (bleh). Thank the Maker for
> answering machines. Not only that, a lot of them are actually close
> to interesting matches :-)
My experience was similar late last year (Oct/Nov) before coming to
Yahoo! I had put my resume up on monster.com and indicated that I
wanted to move out here. I got a lot of calls and e-mail. Most were
from The Valley, but a few were from San Diego. It was enough to
convince me that finding interesting work in Perl wasn't going to be
difficult.
And now I'm on the "other side" and see how difficult it is to recruit
good Perl hackers.
There is demand for good Perl folks--at least out here. We don't need
elaborate data-mining to prove that.
Jeremy
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