[svlug] good sources of linux jobs?

[Reg Charney]

Thanks Deirdre, nicely done.

Reg.

Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:

> At 5:39 PM -0700 8/22/01, Karsten Wade wrote:
> >On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Paul Reiber wrote:
> >
> >>  Does anyone know of a compendium of sites specializing in linux-related
> >>  jobs?  How about sites specializing in linux developers?
> >
> >http://jobs.osdn.com/ actually seems to have some jobs on it, unlike some
> >sites I have seen.
>
> Yeah, most of them have NOTHING to do with open source. Funny that.
> Probably because it's run by DICE's engine.
>
> So, looking on their site and searching on Linux and California
> produces 9 jobs, none of which were posted or reposted in August.
>
> These break down as follows:
>
> 1) requires Windows (release engineer)
> 2) Linux engineering trainer -- fwiw, I was told this job was on hold
> over a month ago.
> 3) Linux kernel developer
> 4) Linux embedded (device driver level) engineer -- the catch is that
> the job is all about several levels of programming all the way from
> kernel to high-level applications. They don't know what they want.
> 5) Embedded linux for a router (i.e. they say they want kernel,
> device driver and tcp/ip stack, but they're really writing stuff to
> do BGP etc.)
> 6) QA engineer (I'm reasonably sure I was told this position was on hold)
> 7) QA manager
> 8) Network developer (but they claim they want a kernel developer AND
> a multithreaded programmer, guess they haven't heard Alan Cox
> rant....)
> 9) Kernel developer
>
> >  No personal experience using them, or in fact any
> >Linux/Open Source focused job site (e.g. http://mojolin.com/).
>
> Well, let's look at them. Searching for jobs in California or
> telecommute finds 31 jobs. 10 are older than July 1 and quite
> possibly for positions no longer open, so ignore those.  6 of the
> remaining positions are in SoCal, so ignore those. We're down to 15
> positions. 1 was a bogus posting by mojolin, leaving 14.
>
> The remainder break down as:
>
> Development:
> Kernel developer:             6
> Device driver developer:      2
> QA Engineer (kernel/driver)   1
> Flash (web, not card) dev:    1
>
> Non-development:
> Technical writer:          1
> System administrator:      2 (1 of them not Linux)
> Account executive:         1
> --
> _Deirdre    Stash-o-Matic: http://fuzzyorange.com    http://deirdre.net
>
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