<div>I'm going to jump on Vic's bandwagon here a moment.&nbsp; When I'm involved in a hiring, I'm far more interested in how smart and how trainable a person is vs. the skillset they are bringing in.&nbsp; Yes, I want to know that they've done cool / interesting stuff but I'm not hung up on what that was exactly.
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<div>It's been my experience that people rarely end up doing 'the job they were hired to do' and your best bet is to get someone with a brain and some drive and do the best to hold onto them long enough that they produce for you.
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<div>Re: Best Unix debuggers, I'm surprised no one mentioned TotalView.</div>
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<div>Re: Open Source jobs.. Sure they aren't as easy to come by as M$ ones, but the market looks better for them then it did ten years ago and there are lots of people out there making a living working in Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and all manner of other non-Microsoftian methods of coding.
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