On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <a...@develooper.com>wrote:
> > 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). > > We are hiring a Perl programmer and aren't as far as LA, but sadly, are as far as St. Louis, MO.