Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

["mel" <mel@ini2.net>]

> Agree with you there....wonder what kind of salaries Genting was
offering....my bet
> is no Malaysian corporation would pay 5 figures for top notch programmers
> As anyone who stated working as a programmer, 10-15 years into their
career,
> are they still writing code ? or are they managing "programmers"

RM5,000 - RM7,000 for a programmer (hardcore) with more than five years
experience. And to be frank, one of the developers that works under
me has a higher salary than mine.

> hahah have you met truly good programmers....they probably look like drug
> addicts - red eyes and slurred speech due to lack of sleep - uncombed
hair,
> unshaven, sloppy clothes, many have an attitude problem too !  They
probably
> wake up 30 mins before an interview and rush there. Most  HR people do not
> understand what makes a programmer great and what motivates them.

Stop the stereotyping please.

I've interviewed one of the brightest programmers (10 years
experience). He wore well-ironed long sleeves, short and combed hair, no
facial hairs - not even a sign that he was a programmer. I thought I was
interviewing a sales/marketing person. He explained malloc/calloc
without blinking. Writing device drivers is a walk in the park for him.

I've interviewed one of brightest programmers (5 years experience).
Very neat, no fat, a very well-groomed lady, in proper make-up and dress.
She explained TCP/IP and raw socket driver without taking pit-stops.

I've worked with one of the best Java programmers. Neat, no jeans
or round-necked shirt, minimal facial hair. His loudness is
expressed in the way he type (super fast), and he worked his magic in
his Java codes.

> Meng

--mel


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