Additional Wanted Information

[thaljef]

Just for the record, these are the things I would love to see here:

• Industry
• HQ location (City, Country)
• Total number of employees
• Number of full-time Perl devs (can be fractional)

I doubt most of that can be gleaned from the job postings. But perhaps people will contribute it voluntarily. We could even create a form on pages.github.com that folks could fill in.

[barbie]

The HQ location is quite limiting. The company I work for have 4 sites in the UK, the 2 main development teams are located in the midlands, away from the HQ in London. We also have a development team in Eastern Europe too. I guess it depends what you're trying to determine from this data.

[thaljef]

Ok, then how about "locations" (plural)?

[off-topic]
It is interesting to see how people react when you put a form in front of them (which is basically what this list is). Computers have trained us to believe the input data must be "just so", or the form will be rejected and our feelings will be hurt.

I expected that people would enter whatever data they felt was appropriate. If you have multiple locations, then list them all; if you don't like the "hiring status" field, then don't fill it out. Yet people still feel the list has some set of rules they must comply with. It just goes to show that designing a good form takes real skill and thought.