software engineers

High-tech execs lobby Congress for visas

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:01:39 -0400

The Senate plans to resume work on a controversial immigration bill this week, which will focus on proposals for granting legal status to illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, technology bigwigs like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, among others, are urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants. These executives have been quick to point out that many of Silicon Valley's best and brightest are immigrants, including Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, who came from the Soviet Union as a young boy. Google officials have said that to stay competitive in a "knowledge-based economy," the company needs to hire many more immigrants as software engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists. Currently, the debate centers on the fact that high-tech companies want to be able to hire larger numbers of well-educated, foreign-born professionals who, they say, can help them succeed in the global economy. The Senate bill would expand the number of work visas for skilled professionals, but high-tech companies say the proposed increase is not nearly enough.

Read more on current visa legislation:
- see this New York Times article

Women continue to leave IT

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:01:39 -0400

The IT industry is losing women hand over fist, according to an analysis of government labor data. In 2000, a little less than one million women worked as IT managers, computer scientists/systems analysts, programmers, software engineers, support specialists, database administrators, network/computer systems administrators or network systems/data communications analysts, making up almost 29 percent of all IT professionals. Those numbers had dropped precipitously by 2006, when 76,000 fewer women worked in IT, a 7.7 percent drop from 2000.

Read more about the decline in women IT pros:
- read the article at CIO Insight

ALSO: read this on why women in IT should speak up to get ahead

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Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:00:50 -0400

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Software engineers enjoying their work

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:01:36 -0400

What's the best job in IT these days? According to a new survey, it's the job of software engineer, thanks to a good pay rate, the ability to be creative on the job and, of course, job stability. The survey by Money magazine says the average pay of today's software engineers is just over $100,000. Also among the top 10 list of best jobs was the computer/information technology analyst.

For more on top IT jobs:
- read this article at Australian IT