Fwd: [Wind] Fw: Linux/Unix openings - searching for candidates!

[John Chambers]

Derek declaims:
| dsr at tao.merseine.nu writes:
| > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
| > >> 1- Linux/Unix Kernel Architect (file systems level and kernel level)
| > >>                             10+ years experience
| >
| > I can think of one person with 10+ years of Linux kernel experience...
| > his name is Torvalds...
|
| No, there are a number of 10+ year Linux programmers around.  Alan
| Cox, Ted T'so, and a few others.  Linux 1.0 was released about 9 years
| ago, so there WERE people (other than Linus) working on it back then.
| Indeed, I'm close -- I've got 9 years of Linux kernel development
| experience at this point (and I've been a Linux user for 10).

Yup.  It does remind me of a curious phone screen that I  had  a  few
years  back.  They were looking for people with 5 years of experience
writing linux device drivers. I mentioned that I'd "written" a number
of drivers (actually taking existing drivers and hacking them for new
devices of course), but usually this was a half-day job at most.   He
made it clear that this didn't qualify me.  So I asked if they really
wanted people who spent years doing such a job, rather  than  someone
who could do it in hours.  The response was "Yes". I got the distinct
feeling that he considered my question obnoxious and insulting.   But
it was pretty obvious by then that I wasn't in the running anyway, so
I was merely bemused by this so-honest answer.

Don't suppose I'll ever be qualified ...