Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback?

jeebus writes "This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture.'"

Comments

Anyone hiring?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm an excellent slacker... err superstar geek programmer.

Re:Anyone hiring?

[angus_rg]

Ah yes, there are more jobs availible now then were at the first dotcom bust. The first bust made people fear getting into IT because of job stability, and less and less are studying computer science/information systems as a result.

Enter Cash Cow 2.0.........

Re:sigh

[mgabrys_sf]

re:"yea cant wait for DotComBurst 2.0"

You must be a barrel of kicks at parties:

"Happy Birthday. You're closer to death now you know. Can't wait."

All I know...

[elrous0]

Any company that won't let me bring my bong to work isn't worth working for.

Thank God Sony gave me this great job developing games for the PS3.

Re:All I know...

[genner]

So they are making another Katamari game.

Re:All I know...

[EveryNickIsTaken]

You're an inspiration to us all.

Re:sigh

[Architect_sasyr]

Nah, I usually grin at my aunts and uncles at funerals and say "You're next".

Stops them suggesting marriage anytime soon.

Laid back work environment, eh?

[Skee09]

Goodbye, pants!

Re:Deloitte ??

[otacon]

I dunno... we had Deloitte consultants come in before, and the one girl was really hot. I don't know why they were here or what they did but I don't think it matters.

Re:it's going to come up

[Esion Modnar]

Is chuffed anything like gruntled?

Re:misconception about salaries?

[Red Flayer]

Yar, I'm looking at you.

Yar! right back at you, matey, but what does piracy have to do with this?

Also, please stop looking at me, I haven't had the chance to put my eye-patch on today.

Re:it's going to come up

[Dogtanian]

Speaking of Lost-in-(non)-Translation, I assume that the "$40,000 pay cut" that is referred to in the article is about 40,000 *Australian* dollars- about 3,000 U.S. dollars or £7.50 in the UK. :-)

(More truthfully, it's about US $34,170, or UK £16,950.)

Re:Clothes are a cost

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't believe I am reading about ironing on "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters." wtf?

Re:I still do good

[Xinef Jyinaer]

He actually just hires 20 Indian Programmers to do the work for him.

Re:It's not THAT good yet...

[easter1916]

I used to work for Enterprise Rent-A-Car... they were naming iSeries and Sun servers after some cheesy thing like superheros or whatever. One day, I was honored to be allowed to name a new series of servers. My first suggestion was "Ted" (as in Bundy). Serial killer server names! Nobody saw the humor in it and I wasn't asked again.

Re:it's going to come up

[easter1916]

I'm currently feeling quite gruntled, and I have to say it feels a lot like when I'm chuffed.

Re:sigh

[Joebert]

Wouldn't an Offshoring 2.0 actually be Reshoring 1.0 for the U.S. ?

Re:it's going to come up

[TheLink]

I'm mayed to hear that.

While that's an advertent remark, it's fairly promptu and something to sneeze at, after all the original inspiration is far more ept and sipid:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-me t-my-wife.html

Re:misconception about salaries?

[illeism]

One year, they had an offsite conference - in South Africa. They went on a hunting safari...

Did you notice that they came back with one less Salesperson (worst performing) though? I know how these things work, I've read "The Most Dangerous Game"...

Re:All the Chutney you can eat!

[Anonymous Coward]

Aye, but have you tried to get even passable vindaloo west of Calcutta?

Not this time

[HangingChad]

yea cant wait for DotComBurst 2.0

Not like the big one of '99. There's not enough in the geek production pipeline this time and talent in formerly developing markets are managing to stay employed right where they are. IT was so out of favor as a career choice five years ago that some colleges started scaling back their IT programs. Not only a fall off in production but many schools scrapped their production capacity.

Even if they could get their IT programs back online tomorrow and overcome the still persistent perception that IT is a career where your job will be outsourced, it would still be five years before capacity caught up with demand.

In fact, in the short term, the geek world may be flush with opportunity. The hot growth markets are overseas. They started vacuuming up some of the excess of world IT talent, which I believe is what contributed to the sudden shortage here.

I still remember stuffy managers looking at a proposal and snuffing that they could outsource the development for half the cost. Fast forward a couple years...got a call from a tech company in town this am offering to contract all the hours I can spare them at a premium rate. Who's laughing now, Mr. Poopy Pants?

Okay, you're right, we shouldn't use this as an opportunity to be petty and say things like NA-NA-NA-NANAAAAAAAAAA!!! Or NEENER, NEENER, NEENER. We must be adults about this when dealing with the LOOOOOOOO-HOO-HOOOOSSSSERRRSSSSS!!!!!

Re:it's going to come up

[Anonymous Coward]

"You can also get away with saying you are unchuffed or dischuffed if something gets your back up."

So thats the problem...

Says to the Doctor, "My crotch itches profusely every night around 2am."

Doc, "Does your company use Norton ghost? If so what time does it run?"

Are you out of the hospital yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

< 80K for a job in Mountain View? I'm sure you suffered massive internal injuries from laughing so hard.

Re:sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

> You must be a barrel of kicks at parties:
> "Happy Birthday. You're closer to death now you know. Can't wait."

It's a scientifically proven fact that people who have more birthdays live longer. :)

Re:It actually works this time...

[grimJester]

4.GOTO1
5. PROFIT!

This is why so few coders ever get rich...

Re:The comming screw

[purple_cobra]

Eight hours per day in a field with a horse and a ho? What the hell kind of industry do you work in?