On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Hans van Thiel
Hello, Somewhat in response to the original post about Haskell engineers I, II and III. This confirms the remark that Haskell experience is now being appreciated, though not (yet) used (very much). Steven Grant, recruiter from Google, asked me to bring to his attention anyone who might be suitable, so that's what I'm doing.
<start quote> We are currently aggressively recruiting for a large number of engineers in EMEA. I spotted your extensive open source experience and was particularily interested to see you have worked with Haskell. I am not looking for a Haskell developer but more interested in people that have worked in exotic languages such as Haskell or Erlang or Scheme.
The roles we have are heavily open sourced based and will be mainly working with Python, C, Linux, shell etc and are based in Dublin, London or Zurich.
If you have any interest in discussing these further, drop me an email to stevengrant@google.com and we can discuss. <end quote>
From a second email: <start quote> The job specs are below.
http://www.google.ie/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=34884 http://www.google.ie/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=34883
The roles are within a very specialist team within Google. They are a hybrid type role and are responsible for making our products reliable scalable and more efficient. <end quote>
Get in touch with Steven:
Steven Grant
European IT Staffing Phone: +353 1 543 5083 Google Ireland Ltd., Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland Registered in Dublin, Ireland Registration Number: 368047
I think this is interesting even to those who are not looking for a job right now, since it shows the current mind-set regarding Haskell, at a major and leading IT company.
Best Regards,
Hans van Thiel
I would be far from the first to remark that the 'Python Paradox' (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) has moved on and become the Scala/Haskell Paradox. -- gwern