Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-06 Thread Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
I've heard your rants on this before. I disagree agree with you about labor organization, not to mention state certification and licensure and moe. I disagree with you. But I don't want to argue with you about it on the list. If you want to continue to have a labor market like it is now,

Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Andrew Wyllie
Hi All, After reading some complaints on this list about being called by Amazon only to have it go nowhere (and experiencing this myself), I have recently learned, (from an Amazon recruiter), that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews over the last few months. I'm

Re: Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews over the last few months. I'm not quite sure how to interpret that How about that they filled 5 open positions and that they got so many resumes that they

Re: Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews over the last few months. I'm not quite sure how to interpret that How about that

Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-06 Thread Lance
You should go over to India to see the class stratification for yourself. To *some* Indians this would be a *great* wage. Unbelievable but true. I was just in Delhi a couple of months ago visiting, and a senior programmer working for a reasonable company can expect 400,000 to 600,000

Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-06 Thread David Kaufman
An article relevant to this discussion appeared on Newsforge today: The Impact of the Offshore Services Phenomenon: A Global Perspective, by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1542250 excerpt: ...the trend of moving as much work as possible to countries with the

Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-06 Thread Uri Guttman
this thread is going on too long and i sense is getting more off topic. please end it now before godwin gets invoked. :) thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding-

Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Lance == Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lance Another thing that made the news over there a couple of times, Lance and had the IT people I was in contact with worried: Western Lance Protectionist IT policies. There were quite a few articles Lance about laws proposed or currently going through