Re: Yet another Lisp Myth debunked

From: Gorbag (gorbag_at_invalid.acct)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:32:16 -0400

"William Bland" <news@abstractnonsense.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.04.23.17.40.48.908441@abstractnonsense.com...

> Perhaps I'm naive to think the successful projects will
> outweigh the "weird" choice of languages in any interviewer's mind?

In order to get by the HR keyword scans you have to list languages,
projects, etc. that they care about.

Speaking from personal experience...

If you are looking for a job where they don't care about the language you
used, you aren't looking for a programming job. From what I've seen,
companies hire "C++ programmers" and "Java programmers". They don't care
what they've done before for the most part, other than to demonstrate they
know about CMM, or other methodological ways to develop software in the
large.

The back door, as it were, is to get in based on other kinds of
requirements, e.g., technologies and non-programming skills. For instance,
if you have a demonstrated ability to get DARPA awards, nobody is going to
care if you use Lisp to execute the contract; they're hiring you for your
ability to bring money in to the business. Similarly if you understand
unsupervised learning techniques deeply, they will bring you in to architect
and teach their staff those techniques (assuming they already have bought,
or you can sell them, that it's relevant to their product or interest).

Companies need people to lead them into the future. Sell that, not "Lisp."

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