Not sure about other elsewhere, but my company was a perl shop for about 8 years but started migrating the vast majority of its code to java about 2 years ago due to the manic ramblings of a man selling scrum.<div><br></div>
<div><div>I haven't been in the job market for about 4 years, but it wasn't promising for perl when I was.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Jarrod.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn@stonehenge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Twice in the last two days, two different organizations in the greater<br>
LA area approached me to help them find folks to fill mid-level Perl<br>
hacking slots (varying between IT and webdev). They both said "it's<br>
getting *very* hard to find people."<br>
<br>
Now, I'm really curious. Why is this?<br>
<br>
Is it a supply problem, or a demand problem, or both?<br>
<br>
As in, are there fewer Perl programmers here but the same demand?<br>
<br>
Or the same (or more) Perl programmers here, but even more demand?<br>
<br>
Or something else entirely?<br>
<br>
By the way... I'm not trying to make a buck out of this. I'm just<br>
trying to help people who ask me to help, and I'm also genuinely curious<br>
about the state of hiring in the Perl community, particulary in LA since<br>
I'm also working here for a while.<br>
<br>
(I'll also be sending this message to the other local PM groups, so if<br>
you see it multiple times, I'm sorry.)<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
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