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Trends in Software Job Market

May 26, 2008 at 11:38 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , ,

Following trends have been concluded by me after conducting interviews and discussing with my juniors, peers, seniors, and some students.

  • Most of the small software houses have the following hierarchy:

CTO/Dept. Head >> PM >>TL >> SSE >> SE

  • Most of the Resource Managers (Team Leads) are planning to become Project Manager
  • Senior technical positions–Architect, for instance–are not available for seasoned technical people
  • Senior Software Developers are planning to become Team Leads to get raise in benefits instead of focusing on scarce senior technical positions
  • Most of the resources have working experience of small-size offshore projects, they don’t have the experience and expertise of Enterprise Solutions
  • Most of the fresh graduates prefer better salary on career growth & learning
  • After initial 2 years, having some quick job-switches, some of them realize that if they could learn, they could earn more. Then they change their mind to prefer learning over adhoc monitory benefits
  • It’s becoming general perception among software industry that to become a project manager is the shortest path to get fat salaries
  • Computer Science Graduates are preferring to get admission in MBA instead of MS
  • In MS(Computer Science), Project Management is becoming a buzzword
  • It seems that in few years, we will have greater number of Managers and lesser number of technical resources, at least in software development

Disclaimer: This are my personal observations, not unnecessarily true.

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How to get the worst of all worlds

April 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , , ,

 
This is the story of ancient war between Software Scientist and Software Craftsmen on the ground of Software Engineering
The Scientists

Slogans:
   Let’s reinvent the wheel
   Complexity is charm
   Think out-of-the-box (never look inside)

Whenever company gets a project the developers are in search of well-hyped patterns and practices. Whatever the projects require, whatever the timelines are, they follow impressions, seeking complexities to passionate their lives. The problem is they want to combine the universal truths they get from their gurus, with the hypes. They get the compliance in few of the cases. It becomes a routine that start with complexity and when you stuck, let the things fly.
They often suggest the solutions they think they should learn. According to their point of view: software projects are to create a difference, even if the project fails, even if they do not add any value, if they implement state-of-the-art technologies, they consider it success.

The Craftsmen: the delivery people
Slogans:
We deliver
Quality is just a fantasy, don’t talk about it
Ad-hocism
Research is a synonym of time-wasting;


Fortunately some of the projects who comply with hyped patterns and rigid practices succeeded to achieve the timelines, thanks fortune. And now the support people are ready to show their quick solutions. They’ll show that the tasks completed by the developers in month was just a matter of days. Thanks to encapsulation; no one knows what’s inside J

Till the day the application is safe from the quick solutions of support staff, it shows some stability. And once it gets the first JUGAR—synonym for a careless ad-hoc solution in Urdu language—the application becomes more addicted to their JUGARs and provides more options for support people to prove their problem solving skills.

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