Tuesday, September 06, 2011

How bad is the engineering/technical software employment picture now in the USA

Only about 30% of PROJECTS (temporary contracts) and full time jobs are now in the USA, the following is TYPICAL

Opportunity to work in small, mainly autonomous dev teams where u will have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment & be expected to learn & grow. Email us @ work_for_it_appdev@xxxxxxx.com:


xxxxxxxxxx & Company's Application Development group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Architect that has passion for building quality software. You'll join small, mainly autonomous development teams employing agile methodologies to build IT applications that support our global network of consultants. You'll have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and be expected to constantly learn and grow. Come join our casual, fun and social 'startup' culture with emphasis on education and innovation!

Candidates with the required qualities and skills (listed below) should email us @ work_for_it_appdev@xxxxxx.com with link to github account,blog, or other online community participation:

- Are Ambitious, driven, and talented who want to solve hard problems
- Self motivated and able to manage one's own time working with in a highly distributed team across multiple timezones
- Introduces and integrates cutting edge tools and frameworks
- Improves our development process by proposing tools and approaches
- Disdains repetition and automates annoying tasks
- Balances beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code
- Relentless at refactoring and improving code quality
- Can work in an iterative environment practicing agile methodologies
- Has contributed to open source projects, participated in some technical community, or has written or spoken in public about your area of interest
- Ideal if the candidate is located in India; but not mandatory


We might find you acceptable if you are demonstratively a near superman and are NOT in India. What they are saying is they want a senior WEB designer and developer (databases and coding) who can show they have added to the world sized pie in Linux or Ruby on Rails or other open source entity, and can prove it at both ends and manage artists and designers by making all processes fun, creative and ruthlessly efficient.

In NY this person would expect to be 200k+ MINIMUM

Everyone getting the picture? This is from a professional networking site for application developers near the top end of the pointy stick.

This is not for entry level people.

What is to be left here?

In 20 years as the collapse proceeds....

THIS WILL BE THE HOME OF LOW COST LABOR

3 comments:

Luther A. Boulay said...

Well said but i agree with Pastorius it is really depressing huh! I don't know if there is somebody who can cope with it.

midnight rider said...

From my tech vantage point (which is not quite at the level Epa refers to here) I can tell you I'm having a hard time coping with it right now.

And it IS fucking depressing.

Epaminondas said...

posted this am....

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Reputa India is looking for 1+ years experienced RoR developers for a large client in Pune. Please send across your resumes to careers@reputa.in
Reputa India posted a job: Reputa India is looking for 1+ years experienced RoR developers for a large client in Pune. Please send across your resumes to careers@reputa.in
"Reputa India is looking for 1+ years experienced RoR developers for a large client in Pune. Please send across your resumes to careers@reputa.in This is a consulting role with Reputa India"
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1-3 Month Contracts
Learn new Mobile Development Skills
Relaxed working environment
My client is a Gaming company looking to move into Mobile Gaming applications. They are looking for a contractor to help with the expansion of work.

Required:

-iOS or Android experience
-Ruby on Rails skills
-Great communication
-Passion for game design
-Be deadline driven

Learn from an Experience team new Mobile development skills

Must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to apply.
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MUNICH
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer needed in Munich (perm role) offering great salaries!
"My client operates high-reach platforms and communication applications on the web and mobile fields. As a subsidiary of a multinational media company, we are part of a high-reach media association with numerous cross-media marketing opportunities. They design and develop exciting, for Internet and mobile devices useful community services customers. Your future tasks: • Design and development of innovative web-sites based on Web 2.0 on mobile devices with components • Enhancement of existing applications in the media environment in both the backend and the front end area Our expectations of you: • Diplom-Informatiker/in (BA, FH, Uni), Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker/in (BA, FH, Uni) orequivalent qualification • Ruby on Rails knowledge or experience in frameworks (JSP, JSF, Symphony, etc.) • General experience with Internet technologies (XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript) • Excellent team, cooperation and interpersonal skills • Initiative and reliability Nice to have: • Experience in the design and development of Internet applications • SQL or NoSQL, knowledge and experience with MySQL server Your application: Our team looks forward to receiving your application including CV, certificates, starting date and salary expectations.

LinkedIn has now started a US job discussion only ..I'll let you know how that looks ..but NO us position was posted today