I don't have a job, experience perl dev, doesn't seem like there's much work out there. Not anything worth doing anyway.
Regards, Martin On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:26 -0400, Adam Russell wrote: > I am trying to help a friend find gainful employment. > To that end I have been helping him sift through job > listings. > I have noticed is that my understanding of "job levels" > is somewhat off. For example, I see job listings for a > "senior" developer with 5-7 years experience. > "Architects" and "Principles" listings asking for > 8+ years experience. > Is this usual? > I honestly don't know of anybody with only 8 years > experience I would want in an architect position! > I am at a "senior" level with my current company and if > I stick around "Principle" is probably at *least* 5 > years away. I currently have 11 years experience. The > requirements are written to be quite formidable and > require and great degree of cross-product experience and > industry knowledge. > So for someone writing code(hopefully mostly Perl!) for > a living should expect what sort of career trajectory? > Do all programmers wind up hitting a corporate > wall(age-ism?) and end up contracting? > I know this is not much related to Perl but it seems > like the Boston pm group has some experienced people in > it so I think this is a good place to ask for input from > people that have been around for awhile. > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
