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Cerf Launches UK Recruiting Tour
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that networking pioneer Vint Cerf is planning to tour the UK in an attempt to recruit coders for Google. From the article: 'Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.'"
Actually, I think distance and time are equally used, perhaps only in English speaking countries (eg UK) and not English-derived languages (like Americanese). I would say that "time" is generally used when describing development, and distance when refering to effort. So "Linux is years ahead of Windows" and "Team X is miles ahead of Team Y at cracking that code".
Basically what I'm trying to say is, you tried to be smart but you failed.
I wouldn't, but then I do work at IBM (and therefore posting anon.).
If you work at IBM the odds are you're writing code which will still be in use in 10 years' time. At google, I don't think that's the plan.
Neither option is necessarily better than the other, but I prefer to work on long-term code rather than short-term code. YMMV.
Obviously you haven't had to look for a job recently. It's a hell of a lot more annoying to be the "good" person that is lost... and often it is a non-trivial exercise to get to interviews. That "45 minute interview" can typically take a good few hours to travel to, meaning time off work and all the costs associated with that. Whatever company it is, there's a finite number of times most people can afford to travel to interviews, and lets be honest, any interviewer worth his salt will be able to size up an employee fairly quickly, I find it difficult to understand why more than 2 interviews is ever necessary.