On 14 March 2010 23:37, Jonathan Ben Avraham <y...@tkos.co.il> wrote: > Hi Dotan, > I hire Linux sys-admin's, Linux kernel hacks and Linux developers. > > The first thing that I look for in a prospective employee is a hobbyist > interest in Linux. If a guy shows up in my office with an RFID chipped white > rat in his pocket that he keeps track of using a Linux app that he wrote and > loaded onto his notebook computer, then he gets a job offer. An RHCE > certification doesn't match that.
I'm with you here. I also look for people for whom linux is not just a "day job". > Another dead giveaway is a prospective engineer who shows up with a laptop > that runs his own distribution of Linux because he knows all of the standard > distros and is not happy with any of them and tells me what is wrong with > each of them until I finally have to tell him to shut up. This one could be a problem, though - he'll want to reinvent every wheel in your system instead of taking the approach I take - "there is 99.9% chance someone has already found a solution and put it up on the web". Otherwise, I'm with you on the gist of things. Cheers, --Amos _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
