How hacker news saved my 2 years

I had recently been contacted by a recruiter for a perl job with Booking.com. She told me how nice Amsterdam was and how Booking.com cares about developers careers. I had my first round of interview with them which was a success and then I was asked to attend an inhouse interview. Since I was searching for a job I was a regular visitor of "who is hiring". And it is here that I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803764 (search for booking.com on that webpage, should be 3/4 down at the bottom)

I am at the start of my career and don't want to spend my initial years doing coding the way it is done at Booking.com, namely - copy paste and ruin my career. I contacted a senior person who had worked for Booking.com and he told me that Booking.com has a bad name in the Perl community due to the way they treat their developers.

So thank you hacker news!

[ I can't post under my real hacker-news profile for obvious reasons ]