... and, believe it or not, so am I ;-) ... I doubt you'll get a straight answer, though I suppose we could run some sort of zero-knowledge protocol amongst ourselves?
*Nods*, yeah, seems sensible. Other alternatives might be whether or not higher rate tax has to be paid, whether you'd have to pay back (old style) student loans, whether it's bigger than age. Yeah, lots of variability there, I know ;-).
Oi, you bastard, you earn way more than I do and you're not in debt! Stop fishing for recruitment bonuses and leave them to people who need the money *sulks*
You seem to have outsourced the writing of your job advertisements to someone who is capable of writing C++ as "C plus", missing out the hyphens in "UNIX- and Windows-based" and ensuring full buzzword compliance, while omitting the requirement that the person be happy working on hardware crypto modules or related host-side software.
To people who know nCipher already, "nCipher are hiring software engineers" says it all; to other suitable people, would that advertisement not look a little off-putting?
And how can nCipher be "young" in tech-company terms, when I've been thinking about applying for a job, off and on, for almost a decade? (The fear that IWJ and I would fight to the death before the first week was out is the main thing that prevents me.)
I parse that as "(A good depth of knowledge in C) plus, optionally, knowledge of Java and/or Python" - but then again, I have insider knowledge. There's next to no C++ here.
Er, I think that's actually someone confusingly writing "C and" as "C plus".
(Hmm, were I to be applying—and breadth of languages on multiple platforms is certainly where my marketable skills are—I'm sure I could trade off my poor degree against 10+years industrial experience. But the "interest in software developement outside …" would be a killer. I sometimes think I'm the only geek who wants to get away from the computer at the end of the working day.)
Oh ick. If that's what they meant then "A good depth of knowledge in C; optionally knowledge of Java and/or Python" would have been much clearer. I suppose I was prejudiced in my reading of it by the general style of the rest of the document, though.
The proven interest in software development is only a "good extra", of course…
Personally, I like coding, but can only take so much of it. This leaves me torn between getting a software engineering job and using my leisure time to do something else, and getting an I.T. Management job and coding at home. It's actually a tricky choice.
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Date: 2005-02-08 02:08 pm (UTC)You seem to have outsourced the writing of your job advertisements to someone who is capable of writing C++ as "C plus", missing out the hyphens in "UNIX- and Windows-based" and ensuring full buzzword compliance, while omitting the requirement that the person be happy working on hardware crypto modules or related host-side software.
To people who know nCipher already, "nCipher are hiring software engineers" says it all; to other suitable people, would that advertisement not look a little off-putting?
And how can nCipher be "young" in tech-company terms, when I've been thinking about applying for a job, off and on, for almost a decade? (The fear that IWJ and I would fight to the death before the first week was out is the main thing that prevents me.)
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Date: 2005-02-08 02:31 pm (UTC)Er, I think that's actually someone confusingly writing "C and" as "C plus".
(Hmm, were I to be applying—and breadth of languages on multiple platforms is certainly where my marketable skills are—I'm sure I could trade off my poor degree against 10+years industrial experience. But the "interest in software developement outside …" would be a killer. I sometimes think I'm the only geek who wants to get away from the computer at the end of the working day.)
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Date: 2005-02-08 03:54 pm (UTC)The proven interest in software development is only a "good extra", of course…
Personally, I like coding, but can only take so much of it. This leaves me torn between getting a software engineering job and using my leisure time to do something else, and getting an I.T. Management job and coding at home. It's actually a tricky choice.
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Date: 2005-02-08 09:15 pm (UTC)Look what this did to my web browser (Firefox 0.9.2)
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It seems to be fine in
And everything else is still working for me...