Comments on: Microsoft Tech·Ed 2006 Student Day http://www.moemoerabu.net/2006/08/24/microsoft-tech%c2%b7ed-2006-student-day/ an otaku fan of all things moé Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: lotekk http://www.moemoerabu.net/2006/08/24/microsoft-tech%c2%b7ed-2006-student-day/#comment-106 lotekk Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:29:59 +0000 http://www.moemoerabu.net/2006/08/24/microsoft-tech%c2%b7ed-2006-student-day/#comment-106 Nice discussion of the MS TechED day, typical MS brain dead stuff. If you want better compsci/programming jobs, go to IBM or other companies. MS is the wrong place to go to in Australia because they are just sellers/marketing here. Its true that they only allow the cream of the crop graduates, common thing for big corporations and companies that are doing real-impact software/technology. I read some article somewhere of Fiona's talk, there were some gaffe bad advice/comments. Take her comments with a grain of salt. The problem with the current industry in Australia is mainly the lack of _skilled_ people. Skilled is not fresh graduates, but rather graduates or skilled programmers that are skilled with a particular set of technologies up to around 3 years experience in real world settings. These usually encompass Java/J2EE (biggest market currently), C# .Net, etc. Then it goes down to those in specialist domains like games programming, specialist admin skills like DB2, Linux/AIX etc. Have to think out the long term goals so that can properly skill up in your favourite fields. If you go management then usually ends up political stuff, and becomes like what MS is doing for marketing jobs. Theres also system architects etc but those require hard set experience. Would be good to read the IT sections of The Australian newspaper (Tuesday edition) to get to know more about the going ons of the Australian industry. Another way is to start your own company if you've got any innovative ideas. Nice discussion of the MS TechED day, typical MS brain dead stuff. If you want better compsci/programming jobs, go to IBM or other companies. MS is the wrong place to go to in Australia because they are just sellers/marketing here. Its true that they only allow the cream of the crop graduates, common thing for big corporations and companies that are doing real-impact software/technology.

I read some article somewhere of Fiona’s talk, there were some gaffe bad advice/comments. Take her comments with a grain of salt. The problem with the current industry in Australia is mainly the lack of _skilled_ people. Skilled is not fresh graduates, but rather graduates or skilled programmers that are skilled with a particular set of technologies up to around 3 years experience in real world settings. These usually encompass Java/J2EE (biggest market currently), C# .Net, etc. Then it goes down to those in specialist domains like games programming, specialist admin skills like DB2, Linux/AIX etc.

Have to think out the long term goals so that can properly skill up in your favourite fields. If you go management then usually ends up political stuff, and becomes like what MS is doing for marketing jobs.

Theres also system architects etc but those require hard set experience. Would be good to read the IT sections of The Australian newspaper (Tuesday edition) to get to know more about the going ons of the Australian industry. Another way is to start your own company if you’ve got any innovative ideas.

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