On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:16, Abigail wrote:
I've been bumming around contracting for the last few months - but I
think that a regular salary probably suits me (and my slackness about
invoicing) better. Is anyone interesting hiring at the moment or has
this financial meltdown thing (news of which has reached even the
provinces) stopped all the fun?
Well, we (booking.com) are. But that unfortunally requires a
relocation
to (or near) Amsterdam, and I can't imagine anyone willing to do that.
At solfo.com we hire skilled Perl people once in a while too, but
we're even farther away! (Los Angeles; although only half of us are
there) :-)
There are a good number of Perl shops around here actually; I think
it's some combination of a reasonable number of big shops using Perl
and enough people leaving those places to start new companies (and
then using Perl).
In other parts of the country not so much; you need a certain pool of
jobs and workers to keep it going (and growing, hopefully). It's
probably the same in London vs outside-London.
The best solution? Start you own company and hire Perl
developers! :-) (I'll leave the missing steps as an exercise to the
reader).
- ask
