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I've heard the opposite.... very very opposite. They have scorched the Perl community from what I heard. EDIT: http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/20

by seivan 13y ago

I've heard the opposite.... very very opposite. They have scorched the Perl community from what I heard. EDIT: http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/2014/01/bookingcom---a-toxic-company-for-developers.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/2014/01/booking... http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-about-bookingcom.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...

xux 13y ago
>It is estimated that the Dutch transported 550,000-600,000 Africans as slaves. Although slavery is banned, the Dutch society still has exploitation of expats ingrained in their mentality. Just read the blog... what the hell?
- bkor 13y ago
  Indeed, the law he's referring to applies to everyone. Expat or not. He later on clarifies that it solely applies to Booking.com. This kind of emotional writing I can do without. It is way too easy to assume he's talking about all Dutch people, so IMO badly written and not worth it.
spiderPig 13y ago
Thank you for this. The comments are funny. Most of them are the exact "layer" he was mentioning in his article.
avar 13y ago
I work there as a senior developer and those blog posts couldn't be further from the truth. There was some discussion about them on Reddit a while ago that I contributed too (I'm "avar" there too): http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is_up_with_bookingcom/ http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is... Anyway to reply to @csswizardry while we have offices worldwide (including in SF) the only office where we're hiring developers/sysadmins is in Amsterdam, and very small sysadmin operations in Seattle/Singapore that mostly handle pager load outside of Amsterdam office hours. If anyone's interested I'd be happy to field questions about it, my E-mail is listed in my profile.

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I've heard the opposite.... very very opposite. They have scorched the Perl community from what I heard. EDIT: http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/20

by seivan 13y ago

xux 13y ago
>It is estimated that the Dutch transported 550,000-600,000 Africans as slaves. Although slavery is banned, the Dutch society still has exploitation of expats ingrained in their mentality. Just read the blog... what the hell?
- bkor 13y ago
  Indeed, the law he's referring to applies to everyone. Expat or not. He later on clarifies that it solely applies to Booking.com. This kind of emotional writing I can do without. It is way too easy to assume he's talking about all Dutch people, so IMO badly written and not worth it.
spiderPig 13y ago
Thank you for this. The comments are funny. Most of them are the exact "layer" he was mentioning in his article.
avar 13y ago
I work there as a senior developer and those blog posts couldn't be further from the truth. There was some discussion about them on Reddit a while ago that I contributed too (I'm "avar" there too): http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is_up_with_bookingcom/ http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is... Anyway to reply to @csswizardry while we have offices worldwide (including in SF) the only office where we're hiring developers/sysadmins is in Amsterdam, and very small sysadmin operations in Seattle/Singapore that mostly handle pager load outside of Amsterdam office hours. If anyone's interested I'd be happy to field questions about it, my E-mail is listed in my profile.