OT: Tech Jobs are everywhere

[HarryBosch]

I’ve been in the technology industry for 20+ years. I’ve worked for the major companies that SELL into IT.

I agree that when you are in IT that when the s**t hits the fan then you are expected to work through the night and on weekends when your area is down: the network, the servers, the storage, the applications, the database engines, whatever. When one of those goes down they tend to bring everything else down with it. The hard part is bringing everything back up in the right sequence to a known point in time. Downtime is lost revenue.

What has worked for me is being the technical half of a sales team. As a technical pre-sale person you get to continue to challenge yourself and learn new technologies before they hit the commercial market. And, you also get to share in the commissions without taking the huge risk that the pure sales reps take – though they do get the bigger rewards.

My advice to someone starting new in the technology field is plain and simple: never stop learning.

Many of my colleaques are looking for jobs today because their skills and knowledge are not as fresh as they once were 10 years ago, even 5 years ago. Continue to learn new technologies.

Do whatever it takes to get the job done. Be driven. Be obsessed with your work.

[fun4vnay2]

I agree cent percent with HarryBosch.

IT jobs now a days are very very competitive and usually favors the young people.

Unless you have the motivation/ability to keep updating your knowledge , you are out…

In my company, we outsource the java development job to India as we can hire 3 engineers rather than having one in states. But again, hiring H1B is usually more costly than hiring a US Citizen.

[fun4vnay2]

I agree cent percent with HarryBosch.

IT jobs now a days are very very competitive and usually favors the young people.

Unless you have the motivation/ability to keep updating your knowledge , you are out…

In my company, we outsource the java development job to India as we can hire 3 engineers rather than having one in states. But again, hiring H1B is usually more costly than hiring a US Citizen.

[fun4vnay2]

I agree cent percent with HarryBosch.

IT jobs now a days are very very competitive and usually favors the young people.

Unless you have the motivation/ability to keep updating your knowledge , you are out…

In my company, we outsource the java development job to India as we can hire 3 engineers rather than having one in states. But again, hiring H1B is usually more costly than hiring a US Citizen.

[fun4vnay2]

I agree cent percent with HarryBosch.

IT jobs now a days are very very competitive and usually favors the young people.

Unless you have the motivation/ability to keep updating your knowledge , you are out…

In my company, we outsource the java development job to India as we can hire 3 engineers rather than having one in states. But again, hiring H1B is usually more costly than hiring a US Citizen.

[fun4vnay2]

I agree cent percent with HarryBosch.

IT jobs now a days are very very competitive and usually favors the young people.

Unless you have the motivation/ability to keep updating your knowledge , you are out…

In my company, we outsource the java development job to India as we can hire 3 engineers rather than having one in states. But again, hiring H1B is usually more costly than hiring a US Citizen.

[HarryBosch]

dd123 the reason why IT jobs favor the young people is because of a couple reasons:
1. Younger people can be paid less than the older more experienced work force.
2. Younger people fresh out of college have just spent the last couple years learning new technologies.
3. They bring that creative “I can do anything, conquer the world” attitude into the workplace.

[HarryBosch]

dd123 the reason why IT jobs favor the young people is because of a couple reasons:
1. Younger people can be paid less than the older more experienced work force.
2. Younger people fresh out of college have just spent the last couple years learning new technologies.
3. They bring that creative “I can do anything, conquer the world” attitude into the workplace.

[HarryBosch]

dd123 the reason why IT jobs favor the young people is because of a couple reasons:
1. Younger people can be paid less than the older more experienced work force.
2. Younger people fresh out of college have just spent the last couple years learning new technologies.
3. They bring that creative “I can do anything, conquer the world” attitude into the workplace.

[HarryBosch]

dd123 the reason why IT jobs favor the young people is because of a couple reasons:
1. Younger people can be paid less than the older more experienced work force.
2. Younger people fresh out of college have just spent the last couple years learning new technologies.
3. They bring that creative “I can do anything, conquer the world” attitude into the workplace.

[HarryBosch]

dd123 the reason why IT jobs favor the young people is because of a couple reasons:
1. Younger people can be paid less than the older more experienced work force.
2. Younger people fresh out of college have just spent the last couple years learning new technologies.
3. They bring that creative “I can do anything, conquer the world” attitude into the workplace.

[CardiffBaseball]

A lot of companies are simply setting up an office in Bangalore. So that rather than use WiPro/Tata, they simply hire locals in Bangalore.

This can be difficult to manage given the extra holidays, and cultural festivals, etc.

There are certain niche technologies that require US based skills. For instance many of the current workflow based tools lend themselves more to a really technical business analyst/pm than they do a heads down java developer (weblogic, tibco, etc.). However a lot of shops using these tools still employ indian/russian (whatever) developers to write adapters or services (API).

[CardiffBaseball]

A lot of companies are simply setting up an office in Bangalore. So that rather than use WiPro/Tata, they simply hire locals in Bangalore.

This can be difficult to manage given the extra holidays, and cultural festivals, etc.

There are certain niche technologies that require US based skills. For instance many of the current workflow based tools lend themselves more to a really technical business analyst/pm than they do a heads down java developer (weblogic, tibco, etc.). However a lot of shops using these tools still employ indian/russian (whatever) developers to write adapters or services (API).

[CardiffBaseball]

A lot of companies are simply setting up an office in Bangalore. So that rather than use WiPro/Tata, they simply hire locals in Bangalore.

This can be difficult to manage given the extra holidays, and cultural festivals, etc.

There are certain niche technologies that require US based skills. For instance many of the current workflow based tools lend themselves more to a really technical business analyst/pm than they do a heads down java developer (weblogic, tibco, etc.). However a lot of shops using these tools still employ indian/russian (whatever) developers to write adapters or services (API).

[CardiffBaseball]

A lot of companies are simply setting up an office in Bangalore. So that rather than use WiPro/Tata, they simply hire locals in Bangalore.

This can be difficult to manage given the extra holidays, and cultural festivals, etc.

There are certain niche technologies that require US based skills. For instance many of the current workflow based tools lend themselves more to a really technical business analyst/pm than they do a heads down java developer (weblogic, tibco, etc.). However a lot of shops using these tools still employ indian/russian (whatever) developers to write adapters or services (API).

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