Linux-related jobs in Toronto

[John Miles]

I am moving on from my Linux data center support position at IBM's Software
Lab at 8200 Warden Ave on the 19th, so perhaps there will be a posting
there.

John

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:27 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY
> <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > There is also a practical reason for asking for "Canadian experience".
> I'm
> > not likely to pick up the phone to call someone in Poland or Russia to
> > confirm that Zbigniew worked there and "Oh, by the way, what sort of
> fellow
> > is Zbigniew?" If you had some local experience, the odds are higher that
> I
> > can get the real story behind your story by working my network.
>
> A further practical reason is that there are language and cultural and
> possibly even legal barriers to getting such information.
>
> - A Polish reference mayn't be usable if the folks doing evaluation
> don't have depth in Polish.  (Ditto for Hindi, Cantonese, Russian,
> Mandarin, and any number of languages.)
>
> - Educational references are difficult to verify if nobody can read
> the transcript, or knows whether the school is a "real" one versus a
> "degree fabrication mill."  This probably also applies to employers.
>
> A bit less comforting, but also the case...
>
> - Employers that don't hire "foreigners" weren't likely to *accept*
> them if they did hire them.  If you don't conform to their cultural
> norms, working there wouldn't be a treat.
>
> I'd tend to apply this principle to the "big 4" consulting firms that
> live inside the remaining big accounting firms, albeit not in an
> ethnicity perspective.  They participate in many countries, and
> definitely have a "racially diverse" population[1], but there's a
> keenly distinctive sort of corporate culture which few if any of us
> around TLUG are likely to conform to or be comfortable with.
>
> And keep in mind that it is *that specific culture* that led the
> evaluation of financial institutions, which allowed such recent
> massive financial disasters as Enron and AIG, and presumably, thereby,
> led into the worldwide recession that we are apparently presently in.
> Arthur Anderson is no more as a result of their responsibility for the
> Enron problem.
>
> [1]  I spent some time at Deloitte Consulting some years ago; in the
> specific group I was in, I, as an Anglo-Saxon Canadian, was in the
> minority, as there were considerably more staff from (India, China,
> Eastern Europe) than there were native-born Canadians.
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