[BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> writes:


[...]


> It appears to me that Anand Pillai was fine with such a post, and
> you're not, and there's some clarity needed on what's acceptable and
> what's not, and the rationale for what ever consensus we arrive at.

[...]

I don't agree with Anand on this matter. I'll state my opinion (and it
is an opinion).

Firstly, I agree with you about the making fun of companies thing. I
don't feel that strongly about it as you but nevertheless. You'll notice
that I didn't do that on this thread. I'm not above it though. I do
sometimes find thing that are "mock worthy" about companies (including
Yahoo and ThoughtWorks) but those are reserved for dinner time
conversations with friends rather than public mailing lists.

However, I'm not concerned about that here. I'm concerned about someone
from a large company with a lot of resources using a public mailing list
like this as a general hiring resource. They're not hosting it, they're
not paying for it, they're not contributing to it (their employees might
be but that's just incidental). If the job targetted Python developers,
it'd be be "contributing" and okay. It didn't and I object to that.

If you or Anand or any of the other regulars sent a mail asking for,
say, Ruby developers (as Sidu of C42 did some time ago), I wouldn't
object. Why?  Because the person in question has generally been valuable
to the list and their presence has improved it. They're not just using
this as a random free hiring resource. I didn't originally know that the
OP was sanctioned by Anand. That would have toned down my response but I
still feel that that the original posting was at best OT for this list.

I'd like this to be a "no exception" thing since, from my experience of
hiring professionals, they tend to be indiscriminate and overly
aggressive in their attempts to get people and having a few them overrun
this list would do it more harm than good.

I'm not a list moderator so if we have an official policy on this
somewhere, I'd like to see it to know if I don't have grounds to stand
on.

-- 
~noufal
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