From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charlie McCutcheon <"cmccutcheon@NOSPAMbegin"@enet.dec.com> Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/17 Message-ID: <7hp5qk$at@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 479014231 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <37372A84.641F2133@bigfoot.com> <7h8oe8$2js$1@cf01.edf.fr> <37382B0C.A95B6745@bigfoot.com> <373841A7.7AB200BB@pwfl.com> <373992FC.86F994D6@pwfl.com> Organization: CTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I think "interesting we don't do that here" generally translates to "we're not interested in training you - NEXT". If you don't have the specific language skills they want, you're not considered for the job. That's a negative if you wanted the job. So if Ada is not wanted with employers, Ada programmers worry about being employable. That said, I certainly think that any decent programmer can and should be able to learn new languages... ;-) Charlie Marin David Condic wrote: > Roger Racine wrote: > > We recently had a former employee come back for a job interview. He > > specifically said that he would not come back to an Ada job. There are many > > who think it is a blot on their resume to have their current job something > > that is "not marketable", like Ada. These are (otherwise) very intelligent > > people. > > > Having been on either side of the job interview, I cannot possibly > imagine how someone looking for a hard working, intelligent, self > starting, go-getter to work on their project would view experience with > some specific computer language as a *negative*. I could imagine someone > saying "interesting, but we don't do that here", but it is difficult to > imagine someone saying "Oh, you worked with language X so it must have > dammaged your brain and made you worthless to do 'real' work!" ....