[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[Craig McLane]

Of the 8 software engineers we have hired in the last 12 months 6 were
hired with the knowledge that we would need to provide them training or
mentoring in Perl.  Several of them had prior experience in other
languages so they weren't junior by any means, but in all cases we
planed on helping develop their software engineering and Perl skills.

Craig



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The only thing I can add is that nowhere I've worked has had any sort of
process of mentoring junior perl programmers into competent, senior perl
programmers. Every firm seems to expect to hire senior people straight
out,
which isn't sustainable, as it gives no consideration to who is going to
train the next iteration.