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<A title=marshland@marshland.co.nz
href="mailto:marshland@marshland.co.nz">Marshland Engineering</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=delphi@delphi.org.nz
href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 29, 2010 9:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] Company closing</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I never forget when arriving here in
NZ 11 years ago, I applied for a job at Jade through an employment
agency. I had 13 years of commercial programming experience with 5
staff. I did not get past the first interview as I did not know Jade.
Later I was speaking to a lecturer in computing and his
comment was, 6 months on Jade training and I would have been
away. 13 year of practical experience takes 13 years to
learn.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If it's any consolation, I'm not sure you missed
too much - I used to work for Jade, and spent a year in the Jade Development
Team, working on Jade itself. When I first went there is was a great place to
work, but it gradually went downhill as the easy money from Unisys dried up. I
left there 14 years ago, when it was an unhappy place, but I have been told that
more recently (in the last couple of years) it has picked up again as a place to
work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If you had commercial development experience, a bit
of Windows (and, dare I say it, Delphi) then Jade would have been a
no-brainer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When we last hired a developer (about 4 years ago),
we carefully did not mention that we used Delphi, just that we were looking for
a senior software developer. We hired a guy with 10 years embedded experience,
never seen Delphi before, not done much with Windows before - one of the best
hires we've ever made. Just a pity we're now all redundant.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Alistair Ward.</FONT></DIV>
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