Re: Embedded Software Engineers, needed in Seattle

Brandon wrote:
John Devereux wrote:

The thing is there are already websites and newsgroups for job
hunting. Do we really want to add comp.arch.embedded to the mail
lists of the all the worlds recruitment agencies?

Yes, if it means more money for people who frequent here, and
more jobs for people who don't have one already.

I get tired of the complaints about bandwidth. This is not the
late 80s. We have bandwidth out the wazoo. The number of totally
irrelevant things posted in a newsgroup, even a newsgroup such as
this with a high signal:noise ratio, is astounding. Job posts
are not totally irrelevant, when they have something to do with
embedded programming. This one did. I say, quit bugging the
legitimate job posters. You might actually see better quality
job posts, if communities weren't in the habit of getting crusty
with every recruiter that comes their way.

To see how bad it can get, just monitor a few newsgroups with
'jobs' in their name for a few days. You will find them full of
repeated automatic postings, where every idiot head hunter tries to
get his post up as the most recent one.

The transmission time for all this junk is not negligible,
especially on dial-up. Synchronizing a newsgroup probably takes
about 1/4 sec per message. This adds up, and also requires local
storage. Meanwhile the wife and kids are complaining bitterly that
they can't gab with their best buddies, and causing retransmissions
by picking up the phone to check.

--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>


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