10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire

Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire by wyclif on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:52PM (#1998357)

Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Nobody in the Valley or NYC wants to train employees, they only want fully-formed engineers right out of school. This is a huge problem because a convincing argument can be made that CS programs don't teach programming-- they teach computer science.

There were a couple of submissions here in the past about a certain UK firm-- name escapes me now-- that takes Oxbridge grads in English and other liberal arts with no programming experience and trains them. I understand they are very successful in developing productive employees. Anybody remember the name of that corp.?

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Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire by bugsy on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:08PM (#1999273)

I agree, and I'd like to clarify that when we are talking about training it's not about learning how to program. It's about being OK with hiring a developer who is expert in C++, LISP and Haskell, and being able to say, hey, it's OK he doesn't know PHP because it will only take him a weekend to pick it up. The training of talented developers is self training, but sometimes they do appreciate the company providing or covering the costs of the books they'll need.

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