That article sounded very believable to me. Over the past two years I've found it almost impossible to find programmers in the New York area. I was looking for basic C++ skills and basic knowledge of computer science, and I just wasn't finding anyone.
I don't know what these IT programs are teaching people, but if it doesn't produce students who know what a reference is and that looking up an item in a binary tree is a O(log n) algorithm, it's doing something very wrong.
Heck, we've recently upped the finding fee for finding a good programmer from $5k to $8k, just because we need people badly enough.
It'd be great to find people with C++/Java/C# experience, with grid computing experience, with both Windows and Linux experience, with XML, with OLAP, with finance experience, with every other qualification under the sun. But we'd settle for someone who just seems clever and competent and isn't exaggerating about their skills.
In short, I find it hard to believe there's a surplus of computer science students out there.
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That article sounded very believable to me. Over the past two years I've found it almost impossible to find programmers in the New York area. I was looking for basic C++ skills and basic knowledge of computer science, and I just wasn't finding anyone.
I don't know what these IT programs are teaching people, but if it doesn't produce students who know what a reference is and that looking up an item in a binary tree is a O(log n) algorithm, it's doing something very wrong.
Heck, we've recently upped the finding fee for finding a good programmer from $5k to $8k, just because we need people badly enough.
It'd be great to find people with C++/Java/C# experience, with grid computing experience, with both Windows and Linux experience, with XML, with OLAP, with finance experience, with every other qualification under the sun. But we'd settle for someone who just seems clever and competent and isn't exaggerating about their skills.
In short, I find it hard to believe there's a surplus of computer science students out there.