Tech IT Easy

March 30, 2007

Developers, developers, developers, …

Filed under: .NET (C#), Asia, CIO, Economics, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Friends, Google, IBM, Internet, Java, MNC, Microsoft, SME, Silicon Valley, Software, USA, entrepreneurship, innovation, open-source — Jeremy Fain @ 9:58 am

Just this week, I received at least 3 emails of friends or former classmates asking me whether I would know a good software developer available for hire. And my answer would be systematically “no, unfortunately not - and good luck!”. Developers find jobs in a wink, and I actually wish I were one of them for at least 2 reasons: firstly, to have the pleasure to receive so many job offers from both promising start ups and world leading companies; secondly, not to have to rely on so tough to find software developers to have my ideas coming to actual products or services.

I remember Marc Jalabert, a former programmer himself and now a VP in charge of developer platform & evangelism @ Microsoft France, saying at a recent Microsoft event at the French Senate that “developers are the lifeblood of the digital economy” (literally, “les développeurs sont l’énergie de l’économie numérique“).

The world is in desperate need of more talented software developers. But if there’s aren’t more software developers, it is likely that we’re not all intellectually capable of becoming so…However, no doubt that we also lack the appropriate training resources, and on top of this, not to say even prior to, the will to transform the image of developers suffering from the cliché widely spread by the media of “geeks parked in their boxes”, which they’re definitely not! At Microsoft Corp. in Seattle for instance, every developer has their private window office; Google is renowned for taking special care of developers as well; and I’m not even mentioning hot start ups that usually recruit developers exclusively (for all sorts of positions including sales, marketing, HR, and sometimes finance!). To make a long story short, software developers have a reason to worry about everything but their career prospects.

1 Comment »

  1. Well, maybe they should look in Eastern Europe, they probably have some crazy developers as they have crazy programmers.

    Comment by Alexandre Lucas — March 30, 2007 @ 11:35 am

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