From: Premshree Pillai Date: 2005-01-06T03:26:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 03:21:31 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote: > > "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? Yes, of course! In such cases knowledge of the language alone might suffice -- after all, everybody has a non-zero skill level :). (I hope I understood your question right.) > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- Premshree Pillai http://www.livejournal.com/~premshree