Subj : Re: Question about minimal requirements in programming
To   : comp.programming
From : CTips
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 10:33 pm

jburgy wrote:
> CTips wrote:
> 
>>Looking at your resume (fortunately, you have an unusual name, and that
>>+ william-lowell probably makes for a unique search), I would say that
>>depending on which resume I saw, I might discard it immediately
> 
> 
> Let me start by clearly stating that I am not looking for a job. I'm
> just very curious: exactly what kind of compiler guru do you expect to
> attract with $80K?

None. Thats for junior hires. (there's a bunch of context switched: the 
sentence may have read something along the lines of "we wouldn't want to 
hire anyone who we wouldn't pay at least $80k" or "we pay even the 
junior most hires $80k")

Compiler gurus are a lot more than that.

  I don't know what your company does but I'm basing
> this question on the bit of query you let on. The shop I work for just
> hired someone with experience writing compilers for SML and I would be
> surprised if they offered him less than at least twice that.

I would, too [though, as far as I know, there are only a handful of 
people who fall into the intersection of compiler guru and experience 
writing SML compilers - I'll have to see who moved recently]

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