Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-18 Thread Travis Basevi
In my 10+ years experience of working with an office in India, I can only back up what Shantanu says below. It's hard enough getting good perl programmers in India, let alone ones with such a specific skill set. The one truly outstanding guy my company has had in all that time (and who has sin

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-16 Thread Simon Cozens
On 15/07/2011 21:24, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: > unfortunately it has to be India since that is where our offices are. I guess this must be that new company नोमुरा सहोकेन, rather than the 野村証券 of old.

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 15 July 2011 11:55, wrote: > We have been interviewing for a permanent position in India, but we have not > been very impressed by the quality of the candidates. Maybe it would be worth finding some good junior developers and then flying out a decent Perl trainer for a few weeks? Leo

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 20:25, Richard Foley wrote: > > What is it with the software industry that cheap == best. As someone said: > > "You can have any 2 of: Quality, Performance, Price" "Good, fast, cheap: pick two". Maybe India is the wrong place to be looking for perl folks. There are p

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:25:57PM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: > Maybe when you've trained people, you should pay them more, then > they might stay...? Observation: good software engineers don't usually have income at the top of their list of priorities - they'll still leave for double the pay, bu

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Richard Foley
Maybe when you've trained people, you should pay them more, then they might stay...? Oh, right, the idea was to get cheap monkeys, (oops sorry) cheap indians, (oops sorry) cheap foreigners, (oops sorry) cheap students to do the job. Forever...? What is it with the software industry that cheap

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 16:48, Chris Jack wrote: > > Something to be careful of is: we have lost a number of Indian juniors who > have got themselves trained up and then moved on to better paid things. What happens if you train people and they leave? Rather, what happens if you don't train prople an

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Egor Shipovalov
One can switch from one sponsoring employer to another without leaving the country, but there is a lot of truth to your statement. There is certain smaller employer in London that pressured sponsored developer into working constant overtime using the visa argument. -- Best regards, Egor Shipovalov

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 15 July 2011 18:50, David Cantrell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:48:46PM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: > >> Something to be careful of is: we have lost a number of Indian juniors who >> have got themselves trained up and then moved on to better paid things. > > Yes, obviously it's better to g

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:48:46PM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: > Something to be careful of is: we have lost a number of Indian juniors who > have got themselves trained up and then moved on to better paid things. Yes, obviously it's better to get them to sign up for a period of ten years indenture

RE: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Ian.Docherty
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote I work with quite a few Indian Perl programmers (mostly from Tata). Whilst rates for programmers in India are usually lower than in London, my impression is you get roughly the same distribution of good and bad programmers as you do in London. A lot of th

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread abhishek jain
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:06 PM, abhishek jain wrote: > Hi > I am in India currently and when i look for job i visit either > jobs.perl.org or one of the two most popular job sites in india, did not > want to advertise the names here, pl mail me offline to know the names of > them. > Let me know i

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Jack
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:55:11AM +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: > [...] > > We don't expect people to have all these skills, but mostly what we have > > seen are people with some of, basic Perl OO, CGI or DBI at best. > > I suspect this is very mu

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread abhishek jain
Hi I am in India currently and when i look for job i visit either jobs.perl.orgor one of the two most popular job sites in india, did not want to advertise the names here, pl mail me offline to know the names of them. Let me know if i can help ? thanks abhi On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Denny

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Denny
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:55 +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: > Can anyone make suggestions for where we can advertise to attract > people with these skills? > > Perl > Catalyst > DBIC > Moose The Catalyst mailing list? They seem to be okay with occasional job ads as long as they're from ac

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Corlett
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:55:11AM +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: [...] > We don't expect people to have all these skills, but mostly what we have > seen are people with some of, basic Perl OO, CGI or DBI at best. I suspect this is very much a case of getting what you pay for.

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Richard Foley
I imagine the application is to server end-users online in some way, so presumably you could use modern technologies to build it online too. You could get someone to telecommute from the US, via Berlin and Hong Kong, into the office in India - might that work? ;-) Ciao Richard -- Ric

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Dermot
2011/7/15 ๏̯͡๏ Guido Barosio : > Consider Argentina, closer than India from a Timezone perspective and > a lesser cultural gap. Costs are the same, afaik. > Oh, Mendoza. I want to visit you again. Dp.

RE: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Ian.Docherty
: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India? The perl group on linkedin seems to pop up a lot of folks claiming many years and good skills. On 15 Jul 2011, at 11:55, wrote: > Hi > We have been interviewing for a permanent position in India, but we have not

RE: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Ian.Docherty
: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India? Consider Argentina, closer than India from a Timezone perspective and a lesser cultural gap. Costs are the same, afaik. Gb.- 2011/7/15, ian.doche...@nomura.com : > Hi > We have been interv

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread ๏̯͡๏ Guido Barosio
Consider Argentina, closer than India from a Timezone perspective and a lesser cultural gap. Costs are the same, afaik. Gb.- 2011/7/15, ian.doche...@nomura.com : > Hi > We have been interviewing for a permanent position in India, but we have not > been very impressed by the quality of the candida

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
The perl group on linkedin seems to pop up a lot of folks claiming many years and good skills. On 15 Jul 2011, at 11:55, wrote: > Hi > We have been interviewing for a permanent position in India, but we have not > been very impressed by the quality of the candidates. > > Can anyone make sug

Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Ian.Docherty
Hi We have been interviewing for a permanent position in India, but we have not been very impressed by the quality of the candidates. Can anyone make suggestions for where we can advertise to attract people with these skills? Perl Catalyst DBIC Moose We don't expect people to have all these sk