I am a manager with a major software company. In the last four months I have interviewed almost a hundred candiates for various positions that we have been looking to fill for some time now. There is a very strong market for true IT professionals. The dot com heydey caused a number of people who had no business in the IT profession to get high paying jobs and now those people are having a hard time finding new work. If you are a true IT professional, willing to work hard, passionate about what you do, and continually improve your skills, I don't think you will have a problem finding a job in the forseeable future. One of the largest problems is that a computer science degree does not prepare indiviuals for work in the IT field. So here are my recommendations. 1. Get a degree in something besudes computer science. I.e. another engineering field, with minors in finance, business, or marketing. This will give you a wider range of skills for employers and provide you flexibility if you are unable to find a job. 2. Train yourself in IT on your own. I can almost garuntee if you have certifications in Java,.NET, etc. when you graduate from school, you will be head and shoulders above the rest. 3. Get real world experience. Often, 1 year of part time work can prepare you better than 4 years of classwork. This doesn't mean you don't have to have a college degree, but the point is to be better prepared than the others.
All in all, if you are not willing to put in the hard work to be an IT Professional you won't find a job. If you are willing to put in the hard work, and develop a wide range of skills, you should have the foundations for a succesful career.
My experience has shown that the number one way to find defects is code reviews performed by other developers who can read the code and also understand the intended functionality. This will catch 90% of all defects before they are even released to QA.
For more information, the developers bible (IMHO) Code Complete (available on Amazon and elsewhere) has some good information on testing strategies and some hard numbers on effectiveness of testing. Good luck.
I have said for years that this would be the number one way to avoid having congress pass COPA. Porn site operators don't want minors on their site, they don't have credit cards. This makes it easy for parents and libraries to filter out a great majority on porn sites. This also enables adults to be able to view all the filth they want to their hearts content.
When so many companies have no qualms about pulling user's sites when there is one person who disagrees with it, or when they get a CaD letter from a lawyer, it is great to see a company standing up for its users. If a company like EarthLink has the guts to stand up against the FBI, maybe other companies will to.
I am so sick of M$ pulling this propietary (sp?) stuff and ignoring standards. I work for an e-commerce firm and we are stuck using HTML 3.2 on our web site because of browser support issues. If both browser could at the very least follow the standards, you would see some great e-commerce websites out there. Instead, we are stuck with the same flat, everyday websites. Where did NS go wrong??
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I am a manager with a major software company. In the last four months I have interviewed almost a hundred candiates for various positions that we have been looking to fill for some time now. There is a very strong market for true IT professionals. The dot com heydey caused a number of people who had no business in the IT profession to get high paying jobs and now those people are having a hard time finding new work. .NET, etc. when you graduate from school, you will be head and shoulders above the rest.
If you are a true IT professional, willing to work hard, passionate about what you do, and continually improve your skills, I don't think you will have a problem finding a job in the forseeable future. One of the largest problems is that a computer science degree does not prepare indiviuals for work in the IT field. So here are my recommendations.
1. Get a degree in something besudes computer science. I.e. another engineering field, with minors in finance, business, or marketing. This will give you a wider range of skills for employers and provide you flexibility if you are unable to find a job.
2. Train yourself in IT on your own. I can almost garuntee if you have certifications in Java,
3. Get real world experience. Often, 1 year of part time work can prepare you better than 4 years of classwork. This doesn't mean you don't have to have a college degree, but the point is to be better prepared than the others.
All in all, if you are not willing to put in the hard work to be an IT Professional you won't find a job. If you are willing to put in the hard work, and develop a wide range of skills, you should have the foundations for a succesful career.
My experience has shown that the number one way to find defects is code reviews performed by other developers who can read the code and also understand the intended functionality. This will catch 90% of all defects before they are even released to QA.
For more information, the developers bible (IMHO) Code Complete (available on Amazon and elsewhere) has some good information on testing strategies and some hard numbers on effectiveness of testing. Good luck.
I have said for years that this would be the number one way to avoid having congress pass COPA. Porn site operators don't want minors on their site, they don't have credit cards. This makes it easy for parents and libraries to filter out a great majority on porn sites. This also enables adults to be able to view all the filth they want to their hearts content.
When so many companies have no qualms about pulling user's sites when there is one person who disagrees with it, or when they get a CaD letter from a lawyer, it is great to see a company standing up for its users. If a company like EarthLink has the guts to stand up against the FBI, maybe other companies will to.
I am so sick of M$ pulling this propietary (sp?) stuff and ignoring standards. I work for an e-commerce firm and we are stuck using HTML 3.2 on our web site because of browser support issues. If both browser could at the very least follow the standards, you would see some great e-commerce websites out there. Instead, we are stuck with the same flat, everyday websites. Where did NS go wrong??
I used to use NS but I switched to IE b/c that was what everyone was using, but not anymore. Bring on Netscape 5 . . . er 6!