Saturday, November 22, 2008

Perl Jobs, Revisited

I saw a req for a Perl contract in Toronto that reads:
One of our dynamic clients in Mississauga is looking for a highly skilled Perl Developer for a contract to full-time position. This company has developed a B2B application that is used by the travel industry. The Perl Developer will be required to translate software requirements from their clients and produce the desired outcome, based on the technical specifications. In addition, the Perl Developer will make proper use of source code control, tickets, and other project tools to meet task requirements. [...]
There are two points here:
1. dynamic client is a new piece of nonsense in recruitspeak;
2. the pay range ($31.35 to $36.30 per hour) is twice laughable: it's precise to one hundredth of a dollar (I mean thirty-five pennies?) AND that is very low.

Again Perl is treated like Cinderella, and I really love it (i.e. the programming language).

-ulianov

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

An Avid Reader?

Today I was looking at my logs an noticed that somebody from the IP address 137.71.23.54 (which is registered to A*alog Devices) read 56 postings of my blog. He or she discovered the blog by googling for "Cambridge, MA Startup".

And this person spent between one and two minutes reading each article. Just hope it's not another recruiter ;)

A funny bit: somebody from Portsmouth, NH got to my blog via a web search for
How much house does 85k salary get me [in] Andover?
-ulianov

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

AWOL Recruiter Resurfaces

I was complaining in this post that recruiter X left me stranded on an interview as he quit his job the very day.

Today he resurfaced: he contacted me via Linked In and asked for my Resume.

Then we talked over the phone and I asked why he quit his previous job. He replied that he moved to a bigger company that staffs contracts with the US government and that he felt that this job would be more secure as the gov't will need contractors regardless of the economic situation.

-ulianov