The Australian boys who built a $1b company in the cloud

Re:The Australian boys who built a $1b company in the cloud by dorian-graph on Thursday June 28, 2012 @03:30AM (#4170656)

* Lack of talent, the majority of students have steered clear of tech disciplines in university after the dot-com bust, the effect of this is being felt now as engineering talent is needed.

Very much so in QLD from experience. I'm studying [software] engineering at the University of Queensland and they give seemingly all their attention towards mining and civil majors.

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Re:The Australian boys who built a $1b company in the cloud by jonpacker on Thursday June 28, 2012 @04:30AM (#4170782)

I've heard really poor things about UQ's IT department though. I've heard that if you're doing IT related things, the reputation of the universities is backwards: Griffith is best, followed by QUT, and UQ is rather poor.

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Re:The Australian boys who built a $1b company in the cloud by TimJRobinson on Thursday June 28, 2012 @09:37AM (#4171614)

QANTM and QUT are the 2 top In my opinion. I did programming at QANTM in 06-07 and it was fantastic as most of what I learnt was practical useful information and all the work we did was actually creating software rather than just studying theory / algorithms. Also got job offers at Halfbrick, Krome and Firemint upon graduating.

Honestly I haven't met (or even heard of) any good coders from Griffith and UQ is as said good for most disciplines but not sure about IT.

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Re:The Australian boys who built a $1b company in the cloud by dorian-graph on Thursday June 28, 2012 @05:22AM (#4170864)

That seems to be true. Unluckily enough, or at least a mistake on my behalf, I was at Griffith last year and had the choice out of all three uni's for engineering and went with UQ because of their record, amongst other things. Oh well.

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