Hi Joshua, I'm an IT recruiter and have seen this happen a few times before.
For example, I placed an experienced programmer in an iPhone development job and at the time he was new to Objective C. His salary wasn't what it was before but it didn't reboot back to that of a junior either. It's wise to prepare for a pay cut given your situation, but there are things you can do to minimise this. Launching a number of personal Rails projects is one of them. Focus on pleasing the geeks and don't worry too much about HR. The majority of Rails jobs at the moment are filled within the community by people who know better than to just look at "years experience". Even if you do come up against HR - remember that no one has more than 5 years rails experience anyway. Good luck, Steve Gilles stevegilles.com @stevelikesyou On Oct 14, 11:46 pm, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't been in the situation like this before. But is it true if > for example you have 20 years experience as COBOL programmer, and then > when you switch career to (for example) Rails, you will be considered > as Junior Rails programmer and your salary will drop and be equalled > to Junior programmer? Does your experience as programmer (eventhough > as COBOL) are not considered? Has anyone found this case before? The > reason I ask is I might need to reconsider to switch career to Rails > world if this is the case when I will be dealing with HR. > > Thanks for the insights. > > -- > Certified Scrum > Masterhttp://blog.scrum8.com|http://jobs.scrum8.com|http://twitter.com/scrum8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
