From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 08:33:04 2012 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:33:04 +0200 Subject: [baltimorepm] Booking.com is hiring Message-ID: Hello! As you all know, I left the Baltimore area for the greener (though dramatically more overcast) pastures of Amsterdam in January to work for Booking.com. If you hadn't figured this out, Booking.com is hiring for Perl Devs at *all* skill levels. Our company is growing in step with our business and we need Devs! Also looking for a UNIX System Administrator. We are in the process of transitioning environments to Plack, but do most of the heavy lifting now with mod_perl atm. We use a number of really interesting technologies including ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Graphite, and Memcached. Why would you want to leave the comfort of the US for the rich, mostly below sea-level soils of the Netherlands? Well, Booking.com has impressed me. This is a difficult to do, as I'm incredibly cynical about companies and corporate culture in general. Booking offers the following: == Compensation: * Competitive, fair salaries * Quarterly bonuses == Relocation: * Work/Residency permits for you and your family! * Due to changes in Dutch law, only legal partners or children can be sponsored. * Relocation allotment (TBD based on family size, etc) * Shipping your stuff costs of up to 1,000 EUR == Leave: * 5 Week PTO * Up to 52 weeks of Sick Leave at 70% pay * Numerous Holidays and other leave types available (Care Leave to take care of your SO, Parental Leave for your kids) == Culture: * Agile, SCRUM-based with performance tweaks as SCRUM was too slow * Fail fast * A/B Testing over Highest Paid Person's Opinion (HiPPO) * Data driven development * Management that actually cares about employees * Open source projects used and patches/releases encouraged == Growth: * Company is growing and prefers promoting within for senior positions * Employee training * Conference reimbursements == Location, Location, Location: * Amsterdam is a vibrant, multicultural, international city * It is difficult to learn Dutch in Amsterdam as everyone will speak English to you * Public transit that works * Bikes! Bikes! Bikes! (I don't own a car for the first time since I was 17) * Centrally located in Europe * 1:30 Flight to Rome, 1 hour to Paris, 1 Hour to London * 1 hour car ride to Germany * 3 hours by train to Paris! == Perks * You will meet CPAN Authors whose code you have depended on for years! * The best company Christmas party you will find, ever. * Monthly social events, one per quarter with partner * Lunch! (Apparently this is common in Europe) If you're doing Perl now and interested in relocating to Amsterdam to hack with Perl, please email me *directly*, not the list. This is your first test! -- Brad Lhotsky From wallisds at gmail.com Tue Oct 16 07:20:32 2012 From: wallisds at gmail.com (Dawn Wallis) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:20:32 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Bowling on Thursday! Message-ID: Hello Perl Group, We still have 6 slots open for Thursday night's social event! It's this Thursday, October 18th from 6:30-8:30 at Patterson Bowling Center on 2105 Eastern Ave. Please RSVP on the meetup page if you plan on coming. http://www.meetup.com/Baltimore-Perl-Mongers/events/84394502/ Remember it's $20.00 per person which will get you shoes and use of the two lanes I reserved for two hours. I am bringing pizza and the Patterson Bowling Center has a bring your own beer policy, so bring some if you want. I hope to see you there! Dawn From wallisds at gmail.com Wed Oct 17 14:38:29 2012 From: wallisds at gmail.com (Dawn Wallis) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:38:29 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Perl job opportunity Message-ID: Hello Group, One of the volunteers from the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop posted this job on the DC mailing list, but asked that I put it up here in Baltimore too. Check it out :) If you have specific job duty questions you can contact Joe, oneiros at annoying.org, who can tell you whatever you need to know, likely, since he is working there. Dawn -- If anyone knows of any Perl programmers with experience in SOAP::Lite (preferred), dealing with science data, or reconciling data models in distributed federated search (and they're a U.S. citizen or permanent resident), please let them know about: http://www.sesda3.com/careers/ss062-senior-software-engineer/ Pros: Pretty laid back environment. Working for NASA. Learn about the sun. Working with interesting people. Cons: Can be aggressively laid back if you don't conform (I was threatened with bodily harm in my first week if I continued to wear ties) And it's only laid back in some regards; anything that might affect a spacecraft or human spaceflight is taken *really* seriously; men with guns have been known to show up and seize machines when we have security breaches. Trying to explain to your grandmother the difference between working for a contractor at a NASA center, and actually directly working as a civil servant. Dealing with bureaucratic rules that make no sense (which our boss does his best to shield us from) and having to do tons of extra work when Congress threatens to shut down the government (see con #2). Hour long phone calls with your grandmother explaining that no, the sun is not going to blow up this year, and how unrealistic it is that the Mayans were able to pinpoint to a specific day more than a millennia ago when we can't be sure if it's going to rain next Tuesday. Interesting people occasionally involves scientists who are convinced their PhD makes them an expert in *everything* including your job (see http://xkcd.com/793/ )... and some of them write code that you have to interface with. You'd have to work with me. I can answer questions about the work that needs to be done. Everything else has to go through ADNET HR. (I couldn't even tell you about the benefits, as I work for one of the sub-contractors) ... I submitted this to jobs.perl.org earlier today, although, it might've been a little more serious in tone. (and it hasn't been approved yet, so it might show up tomorrow, I guess) -Joe From wallisds at gmail.com Thu Oct 18 13:27:41 2012 From: wallisds at gmail.com (Dawn Wallis) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:27:41 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] bowling tonight! Message-ID: Hello, Heads up - If you're coming tonight, the reserved lanes are under Dawn Wallis, so they might look at you funny if you try anything else, like the logical "Baltimore Perl Mongers". The place has a byob policy (beer or wine), so bring some if you want it. They also list some rules here, though I'm sure we'll all be on our best behavior: http://www.pattersonbowl.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=5 Thanks! Dawn