I'm planning to apply for an international CO-OP work term as a programmer for January next year to finish off my Software Engineering degree (Canadian). I am hoping to apply to a European company, as I have been to Europe once before and want to see more of it. What should I know about the work culture in various European countries to...
Has anyone been looking for a job and received feedback from recruiters since the beginning of this year about which skills are most in demand in the United States (preferably New York)? I realize a similar question was asked in September 2008 but I'm specifically concerned with any updated information since that point in light of how m...
what do you think about IT recruitment and staffing firms in the software engineering industry, is it hurting or helping our industry? If you search a career site for anything IT related nearly half of the results are staffing companies...what is your take on this? Personally, I feel like they are making software developers a commodity ...
When you apply for companies, what is on your checklist before you actually send them an application/resume/cover letter? I know that we can all go see if the company is on Fortune 500 or any other ranks, but those ranking system cannot tell me too much. I sometimes get good vibes when I visit companies, but that also does not tell me...
I graduated with a BS in CS around the time of the tech stock crash. Unable to find a programming job in the flooded market, I went into IT. Here it is, ten years later, and I am ready to take aggressive steps for getting into the career I want. Unlike other questions here, I have not had the option to program in a work situation. I don'...
I'm a lifelong hobbyist hacker, who'd like to become a paid, professional programmer, I first cut my chops on QBasic, on a 386, at a tender age, but I've never programmed in a professional capacity, have no professional certifications, and got a liberal arts B.A. I'd say (in all modesty) that I have a expert level understanding of UNIX ...
Greetings to all! This is my first time to ask question here, and any comment is welcome. I have been looking at the job market lately, and thus come this question. A little bit background: I am a developer spending most of my career in .NET technology (C#/ASP.NET for the most part). However, I am never satisfied with just .NET skill, o...
I'm assuming I'm not the only one with this question: Every week or so I hear about some new Industry honcho talking about how nobody majors in Computer Science any more, and how there are many more positions available than there are grads to fill them, despite the economy. So where are these entry-level jobs that I keep hearing about ...
Right now i have a job that requires me to work mostly with PL-SQL. (first job out of college) Have been doing it for just over 18 months now. I think its high time i started looking for another job, as im not learning much here. The thing is, i dont have much experience with other technologies. If you were an employer, what kind of...
I'm soon going to look for a new job and is trying to put together a portfolio. I have a hard time deciding which of my projects that I should include. I've decided to categorize different kinds of projects and then get some feedback from the community as to what kind of code should be part of a portfolio. Type A: These projects are wri...
How should i create my profile on linkedin? I am in need of a job, have no post secondary education and never worked as a professional programmer before. Although I have been programming outside of school for 5 years. ...
EDIT: This has been closed and I realise that I may not have been specific enough with the original title. I ask two questions here: The general one (Does a PhD help get a job?) which has been asked elsewhere, and the specific one (Is it possible to get work outside of the specific research field?). Assume I've already decided going to ...
I just applied for a job doing Agile development. I've never done it before, though I'm aware of the basics. I'm otherwise well-qualified, and they didn't even mention Agile experience in the requirements, so I'm likely to get an interview. I'm afraid that they are doing it all wrong - not "Agile development" but instead "too overwork...
I've been looking for a new job lately, since COBOL really isn't why I got into this industry. The popular job sites don't seem to be listing anything, and I haven't really found anyone with jobs listed on their site, so I'm considering going another route - cold calling (well, cold emailing). I was some listings from a few months ago ...
I just read this as a requirement on a job listing: Aware of the pitfalls of code like: User.find(:all).each and knew instantly I was unqualified for this job because for the life of me, I don't understand what the problem is . . . Is it design related? Store the database request in a variable and THEN iterate over it? Is it dang...
Hi all, I've been looking around at jobs sites and I think I've niched myself too far into one area to actually be able to move around as a programmer (easily). I spend day in, day out, at my current employment writing Windows Mobile Applications in CF2.0. I've written 2/3 ASP.Net applications, but that doesn't give me the confidence to...
Lately, a lot of development/design job offerings I'm come across ask for "links to examples of your work". In the past ten years, I've worked primarily for three web companies. One of the websites is no longer in existing (a victim of the dot-com bubble burst). Also, I have had little to no impact on the design of the "public" pages for...
Our software team is growing and we need to get some focus on developing new features rather than being distracted by supporting our existing customers. Most of the team would rather not talk with real customers, don't want to travel, and prefer to work on the new features. This leaves us very short of good programmers to maintain th...
I graduated from college about 2 years ago in India, have been working in an outsourcing company developing Siebel CRM applications. I have grown really tired of developing enterprise applications that require solving the same problems over and over again. The work in these kind of companies is not really challenging, its just solving na...
There are a few websites (and forums) where you can find job postings. I am looking at a few postings on craigslist and kijiji. How do i distinguish the good from the bad? So far all i have been doing ignoring short post and be wary of postings that do not specify technologies. What else can i do? and what should i look for or do after ...