[OT] Re: [Israel.pm] Perl job at Giga

[Yuval Yaari]

Seems like I'm never going to get a new job.
Why do companies insist on having BSc. ???

I know more than just a few great programmers who don't have any degree, 
some even didn't finish high school.

Are comapnies flexible about this criteria?

For the people who don't know me:
I didn't finish high school and I've been working with perl for the last 
2 years (as a daily job, that is) and for a lot more than that just for 
the fun of it.
A worker in this company started writing a server for this company and 
dragged it over 6 months.
It wasn't stable (he wrote another daemon that checks if the server is 
alive and re-ran it if it wasn't. YUCK.) and it didn't have a 10th of 
the required features.
In 3 months I wrote this server in Perl, from scratch, including a 
database and a web-based administration system in HTML::Mason.
Both the server and administration aren't very simple (I would even call 
some features complicated).
It works great, my company adores me for that, and everything is stable.

I don't think the fact that I didn't finish highschool/don't have a BSc. 
makes me a worse programmer/worker than anyone else.
I do think that this fact will hurt my chances of getting a job.

  --Yuval

P.S: Sorry for being off-topic.


Gabor Szabo wrote:

>I have just seen a job opening at Giga
>http://www.giga.co.il/
>It was in the papers on the week-end so I am translating from
>Hebrew:
>
>#3454
>Perl and MySQL programmer
>- BSc in Computer Sciences or Electronics
>- Minimum 3 years experience in Unix, Perl, MySQL
>
>- Advantages: Cobol, C++
>
>Fax: 03-6818855
>
>
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>Perl mailing list
>Perl at perl.org.il
>http://www.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
>
>YAPC::Israel::2004
>http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2004/
>
>
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