[plug] iiNet job on Seek

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 11/9/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 11:44 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> > On 11/9/06, Shannon Carver <shannon.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > When I was job hunting about a year ago, I noticed this same job specification come up over and over again, must be having trouble filling it.  Either that, or there's so much work they have ten people working with the same job description?
> > >
> > > I'd be interested to see whats involved with the job, as well as what the "competitive salary" was for the job as I've had a few friends who've left iiNet over the years (basic helpdesk, tier 2 support, perl programmer like above and a project manager) and apart from the helpdesk role, they've all said salary was a fair way under what they'd have expected!
> > >
> >
> > Funny you should mention that; I went for a job there and your
> > statement about the pay is exactly the reason I couldn't sign the
> > dotted line. They have quite a hard stance about that 'competitive'
> > rate... Turnover will be high in a place like that, you're probably
> > correct when you say they can't fill the job (or only do for 5
> > seconds..).
>
> Just for my curiosity, what would you expect to get in a job such as
> that?
>
> Gavin
>
>
If you're asking me specifically, I wasn't going for that job but a
totally different one..
Still Linux based though -- like I said cool stuff, really what drew
me to apply there.

Tomasz