From chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com Tue Nov 1 06:51:32 2005 From: chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com (Chasecreek Systemhouse) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:51:32 -0500 Subject: [Jax.PM] Whiteboarding Perl In-Reply-To: <20051029193743.GO14505@campin.net> References: <20051029193743.GO14505@campin.net> Message-ID: <91f88ee20511010651h16093e7dl5f2b12d6a1858ec9@mail.gmail.com> Blarp! On 10/29/05, Nate Campi wrote: > For some reason I've always been unable to demonstrate Perl proficiency > in a job interview when asked to stand up and write code on a > whiteboard. Last year I was turned down for a job at Yahoo because of > this, when I knew everything they wanted about UNIX and DNS (the > position was a DNS architect/DNS admin position). LOL. I went to a job interview at Availity (in 2003) and could no longer remember NAT and routing rules =( I am just tankful tey didn't ask to prove Perl -- I can barely spell Perl and I'm te PM leader =/ I need to become more tink-skulled "IT" appens. =) (Te letter '' was purposefully left out in an attempt to make tis e-mail more ligt weigt.) -- WC -Sx- Jones open source consulting: ttp://youve-reached-te.endofteinternet.org/