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<div>To me, there's two points. perl's bit of a dieing language. ie, most new projects are in Java, .net or maybe Ruby. Most companies that do perl are in a containment mode or are in the process of converting to some other technology. And a lot of the talent that used to do Perl are now doing other things (java, .net, Ruby or something completely different).
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<div>I haven't worked in Perl in over 2 years. My experience is out dated. So most perl interviews are a waste of time because they end up being dead ends.</div>
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<div>Also, because Perl is being used less and less in application development projects, and by doing Perl development I'm missing opportunities to learn more marketable technologies, it's a bit of a dead end career move to.
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<div>That doesn't mean that I won't take Perl positions, but I look to be paid a premium ($150-300 an hour) to even consider going through the interview process and jumping into a position whose main benefit is the pay.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">shane</b> <<a href="mailto:shane@lottadot.com">shane@lottadot.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>Well, I guess I'll just speak up. My reason for asking about the salary was slightly two-fold. I've heard of two people who "know their stuff" in Columbus being hired, starting in the 90's, this past month, for Perl programming. Yours is the second job posting in a week that I've been emailed about that wants someone who knows their stuff, would only do Perl, is advertising in the 80's and is having problems finding someone. These were guys who had a few years experience, not 7,10 or 15 like some of may around here. But they are good.
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<div>I'm not trying to diss on your parade by mentioning the above, nor start a salary-flame-war (is there such a thing? probably if I google it) but rather (bluntly) point out your range may be too low. And like HOGUEJ, I would rather see people sending job postings to the Columbus-pm when they're local here (rather than make you wade through the perljobs listserv which seems to rarely have Ohio jobs in it).
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<div>Good luck,</div>
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<div>On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Scott Blickhan wrote:</div><br>
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The salary range would be in the mid to upper 80's total compensation for a strong candidate.</span></span></font></p>
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