[GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

[William Park]

Hi Dave,

Just curious... Why was Go chosen?  And, more importantly, what other 
languages were considered and rejected?

On 11/27/21 2:05 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 
> milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful 
> and moving steadily toward IPO in a few years.
> 
> We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for 
> automation, and data / machine-learning engineers. Plus co-ops.
> 
> There are roughly 60 engineering position we want to fill, nominally in 
> downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. In fact, we've mostly 
> been working from home world-wide, and turned our old North Toronto 
> office into a data centre. We do have a building at King and Spadina for 
> folks who prefer to have a desk (which includes me), but it's optional.
> 
> This is the best job I've had since /Sun Microsystems/: come join me.
> 
> --dave
> 
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> David Collier-Brown,                 | Always do right. This will gratify
> System Programmer and Author.        | some people and astonish the rest
> dave.collier-brown at indexexchange.com  |                     -- Mark Twain
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