On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:19 +1100, Toby Hutton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jonathan Cast > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Not really. My company *advertises* for Haskell developers, and then > > when they come in to interview, informs them that the code base is > > actually written in Perl. Works, too --- we have several Haskellers > > working here. If all you care about is the quality of the developers, > > and not their productivity once you've got them, you don't actually need > > to let them use Haskell after the interview is over... > > I saw this trick recently for a job advertised locally to me, in > Melbourne. I was initially pretty excited that someone in this city > was actually advertising for Haskell programmers, until I realised > they needed to be good at Javascript and Perl so they could work on > their web apps. Argh, I didn't bother applying.
I think I saw the same advertisement; unfortunately it was on a joint Australasian website so I was in the wrong country anyway :) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
