[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> There's some irony here, I feel. In LA we have (at least) 3 big money-
> making mod_perl using companies trying to recruit solid Perl people to
> write in depth Perl code, and finding that they're in short supply  
> locally.
>
> (Shopzilla, Ticketmaster, Oversee.net. Not sure if Citysearch are  
> currently
> recruiting, not aware if I've missed any other firms. If so, sorry)
>
> Yet in London it seems that there are more good people than good jobs  
> to
> stretch them:
>
> http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20060731/ 
> 003436.html
> thread spills into the next week
> http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20060807/ 
> thread.html
>
> (and I've had feedback that Paris and Amsterdam are roughly similar)
>
> What's wrong with the world?
>

Well, I don't know about the world, but in the US many people don't  
want to live in LA (perhaps even for valid reasons), and it is nearly  
impossible to get people to move from the Bay Area / Silicon Valley in  
particular, even when the job situation there was truly dire but LA was  
hiring like crazy.

Of course, there's also the fact that we (Overture) never lacked for  
applicants.  What was hard to find was people we were willing to hire  
(and who didn't also have other offers in Silicon Valley, which they  
inevitably took even when we were offering more money in a less  
expensive area).



-kevin