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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday May 19 2016, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-isn't-too-ridiculous dept.

Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:

  1. 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
  2. Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
  3. Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
  4. 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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:28PM (#348459)

    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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