Comments on: Interesting Gigs http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/05/03/interesting-gigs/ because technology is just another ecosystem Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Luis Villa http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/05/03/interesting-gigs/#comment-73976 Luis Villa Thu, 03 May 2007 19:19:12 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/05/03/interesting-gigs/#comment-73976 Someone could also travel to wealth and fame by way of <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/232371/">this job</a> if they had the guts. Whoever takes that job will become known to every investor and participant in the kernel, and if they do it well, will eventually be respected for their social skills and management ability as much as for their technical chops. That is a pretty good place to be. You just have to find someone who can overlook the fact that they have to do QA for a long time first... (Oh, and apropos the OLPC job: while I haven't actually started at RH yet, I've gotten a stream of pre-work materials from them, and I have to say I've been very, very impressed. They not only seem to get it at the corporate level, but seem to be very self-conscious about impressing 'getting it' on their new hires- which I think is great. Like every company, they aren't perfect, but they are at least off to the right start.) Someone could also travel to wealth and fame by way of this job if they had the guts. Whoever takes that job will become known to every investor and participant in the kernel, and if they do it well, will eventually be respected for their social skills and management ability as much as for their technical chops. That is a pretty good place to be. You just have to find someone who can overlook the fact that they have to do QA for a long time first…

(Oh, and apropos the OLPC job: while I haven’t actually started at RH yet, I’ve gotten a stream of pre-work materials from them, and I have to say I’ve been very, very impressed. They not only seem to get it at the corporate level, but seem to be very self-conscious about impressing ‘getting it’ on their new hires- which I think is great. Like every company, they aren’t perfect, but they are at least off to the right start.)

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