[mplspm]: Job Opportunities

Gypsy Rogers gypsy at FreeQ.com
Thu Oct 17 21:48:53 CDT 2002


For the record, I worked with Michael and his team for about a year and it's a
wonderful work enviroment, any programmer should count himself lucky to work
there. Anyone hesitating this on this one should give it a second look. :)

just my two cents


On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Michael Smit wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:04:34 -0500
> From: Michael Smit <michael.smit at reuters.com>
> Reply-To: mpls at pm.org
> To: mpls at pm.org
> Subject: [mplspm]: Job Opportunities
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> It's been a long time since I've been able to make it to a meeting, but 
> some people probably still remember me a little.  However, I have Perl news 
> that is somewhat topical...  Our office is hiring, and we love Perl.
> 
> Things have changed a lot since we last looked for people for our downtown 
> St. Paul development office.  For one, we're Reuters now.  Yes, the media 
> and financial news conglomerate.  So we've gone from Bridge with 1600 
> employees to Reuters with over 15000.  (see www.reuters.com for more).
> 
> What hasn't changed is that we're still a small (30 people) development 
> office working on backend financial data processes.  We use Perl heavily 
> throughout our data collection, parsing, and distribution processes.  We 
> run Sybase for our database and most servers are Sun Solaris boxes.  It's 
> only through Perl that we can get our work done.
> 
> And we have 3 or 4 full-time positions open (not consulting at this time 
> unfortunately...  we want you body and soul).  Experience is important, but 
> we will hire junior people too if you're a good match for us.  Perl and SQL 
> are important skills, with mod_perl/Mason, C, and bond knowledge extremely 
> helpful.  As a BigCo, Reuters has a decent benefits package and salaries 
> should be competitive with the market.
> 
> I know recently I saw several messages on the list about the tight job 
> market for Perl programmers, and it's about time that we got to hire some 
> help for our increasingly important role within Reuters.  If you're 
> interested, please feel free to email me with questions or resumes.
> 
> Michael Smit
> Manager, Fixed Income Database Development, Reuters America
> 
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