[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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