From: Robert Klemme Date: 2005-01-06T03:21:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world "Premshree Pillai" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:bbe2162d050105094944686829@mail.gmail.com... > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:41:31 +0900, Oliver Cromm > wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:26:56 +0900, Premshree Pillai wrote: >> >> > No company hires a person based on his language skills >> >> Add ...alone, and I agree. >> >> > -- unless the company is run by a bunch of retards. >> >> If the task of the employed is to maintain and extend large existing >> applications, knowledge of the language used becomes a prerequisite. And > > Yes, knowledge of the domain language is _important_, but _secondary_. > Problem solving skills come first. > > Also, a lot of organizations hire people based on their > problem-solving skills alone -- i.e., whether or not the person knows > the _required_ domain knowledge -- and train them on stuff that the > organization uses. (This is true of most big organizations in India; > smaller companies, generally, do not have a training process.) Could it be that different organizations have different priorities for different jobs? Kind regards robert >> this is not a rare scenario. Although it becomes more and more possible >> to integrate modules from different languages, for maintainability >> reasons this is not always favorable. >> -- >> Oliver C. >> 45n31, 73w34 >> Temperatur: -10�C (-16) >> >> > > > -- > Premshree Pillai > http://www.livejournal.com/~premshree > > >