I certainly won't hope that there's any employer that's foolish enough to think Perlmonks XP system rates Perl knowledge. It does not! It rates *popularity* (not of author, but of subject). Ask a web-related not really Perl question that was asked 5 times in the previous month, get frontpaged, and you're likely to earn 100 XP. Just for asking, not for knowing. Answer a complicated question about IPC, correcting a dozen answers that were wrong, with lots of code, and you're likely to get about 5 XP.

Questions often get far more XP than answers to those questions. Answers to complicated questions usually get even less. Knowing less will actually earn you more XP, and a higher status than knowing more. Not to mention that once after you've gotten a few points, you can work up to saint by just hanging around and voting.

I'm glad my employer never asked about Perlmonks. I have been asked what my CPAN id was though.

Abigail