On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Abhinav Keswani wrote:
> secondly: I was just told by someone that having my Linux skills on my
> Resume may not be such a good idea because it is corporate strategy to
> go the way of M$ Doze...
only for those companies still in the grasp of the Dark Side...
can you grok:
echo Mhbqnrnes Stbjr | tr [a-y] [b-z]
> this is what it is like in Sydney anyway - I was pretty pissed off by
> this - since I have spent so much time learning about Linux and getting
> a proficient skills base...and I have enjoyed (almost) every minute of
> it...
there aren't a number of smaller startups using Linux in Sydney? (i
wouldn't know, as i've never been to Sydney)
> I thought to myself that such HR people are inefficient string parsers
> that read documents and think that those with the right strings in their
> docs (ie Doze qualified) are the ones to employ...
you're correct about HR people being clueless... as faithful minions,
they do what they're told... i would do a sed change
on the resume:
's/Linux/Unix/g'
> I was wondering what its like overseas ... or even in Australia (in
> Sydney would be awesome!!) ... in terms of getting to work with a
> company that uses and loves Linux...
try Northern Virginia (Washington, D.C. metro area) companies are
screaming for qualified 'nix, C, C++ people... AOL, Oracle, Sprint, etc...
see the classifieds at www.washingtonpost.com...
> seeing that I am soon to graduate - this info would be very interesting
> for me...
>
> -A
>
