APM: Perl Job Position from Recruiter

[Mark Lehmann]

I had that position in that department and I mostly did Perl before Tim
was running it.  Some Java work was combing in, but I was primarily
focused on Perl and a little PL/SQL.  Tim has a great team of people.  I'd
still be there if a friend of mine had not offered me a really cool
opportunity to be "The Database Guy" at a small startup that continues to
be in business.  Tim Peoples is one of the top ten perl developers in
Texas and is an awesome mentor.  And Tim has been able to find ways to
make Java useable.
--
Mark Lehmann

On Mon, October 23, 2006 19:09, Leeland Heins wrote:
> On Monday 23 October 2006 02:39 pm, Tim Peoples wrote:
>> Interestingly enough, this job is actually for my team (and no... there
>> is no JSP requirement).
>>
>> What I'm really looking for is someone who is a fairly good OOP Perl
>> programmer who (over time) wants to also become a really good Java
>> programmer as well.
>
> That is interesting.  I declined an offer through a recruiter to interview
> at
> DMi/ADP because it was described to me as being around 25%
> Java/JSP/J2EE development and only ~60% Perl with the remainder a
> mixture of other things like C#.  It was also represented to me that most
> of the new development would be in Java and mostly only maintenance
> in Perl.  After hearing that, I wasn't very interested.  I'm probably
> cynical,
> but I've been disappointed too many times over the past few years by
> what was described to me as "Perl Developer" positions that turned out
> at interview time to be Java Developer positions plus maintaining a few
> Perl scripts someone wrote a few years ago or maintaining some Perl
> code while replacing it all with Java or while someone else is.
>
> --
> Leeland Heins, leeh at softwarejanitor.com
>
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