[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

>
> So, next question, how many recruiters/hiring managers on this list are
> looking to recruit smart juniors and mentor them up?
>

We (Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing) absolutely did bring people in as 
summer interns, and frequently hired them full-time after graduation.

Personally, I never used perl knowledge as a filter, even when hiring 
for jobs that were primarily perl programming.  (Well, that's not quite 
true.  If someone claimed to be a perl whiz but couldn't correctly 
answer intermediate perl questions, that would get them the axe.)  What 
was a problem in my view was the number of people, at any level of 
experience, who couldn't answer questions about freshman level CS: 
basic data structures and the like.


-kevin