Monday, April 23, 2012

Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors - Bloomberg

Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors - Bloomberg: "Fewer Managerial Jobs
With talent, street smarts and keen networking skills, you might still get good work in your 50s. Moving up to management is also a possibility, but as Microsoft’s Vaskevitch pointed out, these jobs are limited in number. Qualifications include being “verbally aggressive,” as one manager put it to me, and often a willingness to make late- night calls to those programmers in India you have offshored the work to.
Finally, those high programmer salaries are actually low, because the same talents (analytical and problem-solving ability, attention to detail) command much more money in other fields, such as law and finance. A large technology company might typically pay new law-school graduates and MBAs salaries and compensation approaching double what they give new master’s degree grads in computer science.
If you choose a software-engineering career, just keep in mind that you could end up working for one of those lowly humanities majors someday.
(Norman Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. The opinions expressed are his own.)"

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