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Post by holdenk »

shadowsun7 wrote: post #19
stuff4ben wrote: post #8

I can echo this. I've had two Fortune 500 companies, several recruiters, and even Google all contact me (unsolicited too) within the past month. It's the oddest thing I've seen in the 13 years I've been a developer.

I find this particularly interesting, especially as a CS student. Is this hiring binge across the board, or primarily for developers who've been in the market for awhile now? Because if it's the latter, startups can continue to siphon off from universities (through internships, and later job offers) and the like.

Big tech companies already heavily use internships as a recruiting method for new-grads. When I went through, I remember the big 3 all paid substantially more than all of the local companies. A lot of the interns I know (including my self), returned to one of their internships.

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Post by berntb »

davidu wrote: post #5

There are different folks qualified for different size companies. Some people do best at the 1-5 person company. Some people do best at the 5-25 person company. Some people do best at the 25-100 person company. And some people do best at 100-250, and 250+. The best people are the ones that grow with you as the company grows and take on bigger leadership roles as needed, constantly working for what's best for the comp…

>>commute and other lesser factors

For at least me, travel time is a factor of almost equal weight as work content and pay. A two-three hours commute/day just destroys your life.

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Post by endtime »

Simucal wrote: post #15

We need to have another Hacker News "Who's Hiring?" thread. I'm a senior CS student gearing up to graduate this May and starting my employment search. I have worked two software engineering internships and I'm proficient in the .Net stack (particularly ASP.NET MVC), Java, and Python. I've also had a some amount of Android experience over the past two semesters.

If you're interested in Django development in Manhattan, shoot me a copy of your resume at rich@track.com.

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Post by GFischer »

elblanco wrote: post #10
xox wrote: post #3

What I find remarkable about the chart is the volume of tech jobs in D.C. relative to the population: D.C. has a population of about 600 thousand versus about 8 million in NYC and yet tech hiring seems to be roughly on a par in these two cities. That's mind blowing (to me at least). If that's correct, it must be virtually impossible to be an unemployed programmer in D.C.

There's over 5 million people in the D.C. area (D.C., Southern MD and Northern Virginia). Coupled with a highly educated workforce, plentiful higher education options, and a rapidly modernizing federal government, and you actually see very very few unemployed developers. Most places I know in the area get the vast vast majority of their resumes from incoming immigrants looking for an H1-B sponsor or a Green Card spon…

Do you know if they eventually go for it? (H1-B sponsoring?). I'm a wannabe immigrant, and I wouldn't mind an H1-B sponsor :)

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Post by danohuiginn »

stuff4ben wrote: post #8

I can echo this. I've had two Fortune 500 companies, several recruiters, and even Google all contact me (unsolicited too) within the past month. It's the oddest thing I've seen in the 13 years I've been a developer.

nod

I'm a freelancer, and have been suddenly deluged with new projects in the past fortnight. I'd chalked it up to coincidence, but I keep talking to other people who are experiencing the same.

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Post by elblanco »

GFischer wrote: post #24
elblanco wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's over 5 million people in the D.C. area (D.C., Southern MD and Northern Virginia). Coupled with a highly educated workforce, plentiful higher education options, and a rapidly modernizing federal government, and you actually see very very few unemployed developers. Most places I know in the area get the vast vast majority of their resumes from incoming immigrants looking for an H1-B sponsor or a Green Card spon…

Do you know if they eventually go for it? (H1-B sponsoring?). I'm a wannabe immigrant, and I wouldn't mind an H1-B sponsor :)

Some places are. It's difficult because the biggest employer in the area is the U.S. Federal Government. So it's hard to hire non-citizens. But there is a relatively healthy private sector as well. You just have to try and find those smaller employers. Most of the resume's I've seen also seem to be coming in through a recruiting agency if that helps.
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