Programming is considered by many to be a recession proof job but with the recent downturn in the economy and how severe it's been, will this still hold true for this recession? Are people seeing their salaries go down? ...
My employer has been making some adjustments to reduce and adjust expenditures. I was just *offered* an excellent position in a different business area. I was eager to accept the new position, because it should be challenging and interesting. Are other programmers experiencing the same thing, and does anyone have any advice for my first...
Please comment if you are a UK-based freelance PHP developer. Are there just less contracts around because its December or will PHP developers feel the crunch? ...
Are there any fields in programming that are currently "recession proof?" That is, are there any topics that, if a person is profficient in them, he/she will be relatively immune from the current economic slowdown? At first I was thinking that due to its explosion in popularity Ruby/Rails would be one such field. I am, however, unconvin...
I just wanted to gauge how software industry is coping with the recession. Everyday we hear thousands being laid off( including Microsoft and Google recently). So, did the recession finally catchup to Software industry as well? Or is the Software industry immune to this recession? ...
I work for a very good company and my salary is very competitive considering my less experience and pay structure followed in my country - India. I have 2 years of full time experience. In addition to that I did 2 internships, 6 months each, 1 in my company using C++ and the other in a very good semiconductor company on ETL development ...
Apart from many cost cuttings that have taken at my workplace (a non-IT, financial company) for the past 18 months, something that has affected developers like me directly is that new projects have been shelved and few existing projects are being outsourced (have been told that outsourcing makes the cost variable). All these sometimes at...