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Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:
- 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
- Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
- Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
- Students expect to earn between $70–150K right out of school.
Details of the Devpost study can be found here.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 19 2016, @06:18PM
experience and age are valued. At least I hope so.
I spent six years trying to find a job as a mobile developer. Got lots of interviews but as soon as they looked at me in person, the interview sounded like they were trying to find reasons not to hire me.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:28PM
I wish you luck with that. I am going to the middle stack (C#, SQL). A couple of guys I worked with are doing the same as you embedded drivers. They have been looking for 6 months. Where you are at it is probably much easier for that sort of job. Where they are? Not so much and they are unwilling to move.
Have you considered windows drivers? I bet it is finiky enough but with a good amount of computers out there it could be worth doing? Or both?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 22 2016, @06:30AM
I do not presently have enough expertise for Windows drivers, but I do know there is a huge demand for windows drivers developers.
I'm able to get Mac OS X driver gigs because no one else does them. Or rather, everyone who does, works for Apple.
As for your friends - tell them I did just fine doing embedded work remotely. That's actually quite common, I think maybe more common than remote work for other kinds of coding.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @08:53PM
It's a good plan. You're right about experience and age, or at least they won't mind it. (can't get 30 years experience from a 22-year-old)
Factory automation ought to work for you. If you can find a defense contractor that won't expect you to get a clearance, that would be excellent. The innards of machinery ought to work for you.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 22 2016, @06:33AM
All I was told is that the primary contractor worked for "The Client". The Client wanted "The Boards" from the primary contractor. I did a completely unclassified subcomponent whose mil-spec you can FTP from an Air Force base.
I speculate I know who The Client is. I won't say, because then The Client would have me sent to GitMo.
There's lots of defense industry in the Portland/Vancouver area, for example Sikorsky makes helicopter interiors here. It's just that those folks don't advertise on Craig's List.
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