how could you find a good developer
June 23, 2008
Want to impress us? Answer one of the challenges and show us your stuff!
okay I am going to apply to this, if only anyone can tell me what’s the Y2hhbGxlbmdlQGRvdHNwb3RzLmNvbQo= email is?!
Career Options day at FCIS
March 8, 2008
today I was in the FCIS-Ainshams – the school where I graduated in, and doing my post-graduate – and I had the good chance to attend an event organized by the ACM called “Career Options”, it shows the students especially who are in their last year, what career paths they are going to have.
when I was first looking into the event agenda, I thought the academic career path session would be just a misery, because in real life the academic career path is the worst thing to go for as a FCIS graduate – at least in the first ten years – but it ends up being the best session in the event! and here is how.
Abdalla Gamal did a great presentation about it for the students, it was very inspiring for everyone, making a good thing out of a not good enough thing to go for – due to the research infrastructure we currently have in Egypt – I’ve blogged about this before in the research disaster around, check it out to see where exactly is the point.
the presentation was just great, the only comment here is, it didn’t answer what’s next question, okay I’m excited what’s next?, Abdalla was talking about the research and how to, but his presentation didn’t answer what concerns the students, what they have to do now to be engaged to this path, and are there any chances for them other than FCIS to start with? in my opinion this would just close the circle he has opened in his session.
you can download Abdalla’s presentation from here
the event was just great, great effort by all the ACMers and well done!
Best Companies to work for!
February 6, 2008
A great start by a great guy called Mohamed Nour (I still don’t know him personally till this moment), he did a tremendous job publishing an initial survey results about the Software Industry Market in Egypt, the results still not pretty accurate but we still need to appreciate the faithful attempt to provide such information, the survey aims to publish an accurate indicators about the software development industry inside Egypt including the professional level of the software companies, the companies technical level, management, process, salaries and work environments.
the following is one of the survey charts indicates the best companies based on the votes:
the survey has indicated some good future considerations, in my point of view the most important points for the next attempt would be providing the authorized protection by one of the major entities like MCIT, and a good marketing campaign for the survey using independent participants so it could cover thousands of participants of the different market slices to provide more accurate results.
IT outsourcing global trend
September 25, 2007
the question here is how outsourcing is going to affect your career, in the united states, many corporations are planning to outsource thousands of IT jobs to offshore teams, outside firms or even establish their offshore development shops. most of these jobs belong to offshore teams or organizations are in India, Egypt, or southeast Asia.
outsourcing is a business trend you must fully understand, I don’t expect the trend to reverse anytime in the foreseeable future, and everyone has not to feel powerless to cope with the changes either, apparently the nature of work will change dramatically with offshoring, the total number of the IT jobs will increase in the countries that receive outsourcing contracts, and it will decrease in the untied states, so much future growth will happen outside the united states. Likewise the IT salaries will increase in these countries and will relatively decrease in the united states, but the job stability at these countries will remain unclear until the outsourcing business models mature.
hmm finally above this, whatever your chosen career path, strive to find happiness in your work, don’t fear the ongoing change in Information Technology just because others are afraid..
Ahmed IG is now in
August 6, 2007
Ahmed Mohamed Al-sayed is 2007 FCIS-Ain shams University fresh graduate, he has completed his high school in United Arab Emirates, and then moved to Cairo to complete his university studies. I didn’t know him personally during the college days, he has been referred to me by Hossam Aldin, I remembered his name from a video he made about Ahmed Salah (a teaching assistant in FCIS-AinShams) it sounded kinda fun but just reflected to me his ability and willing to do “something” before I proceed with him. IG has passed all our technical and non-technical interviews, I personally enjoyed talking to him. IG is going to join the Storage Billing System team, I wish him the best of luck in his new mission.
Welcome IG!
Read more about IG: www.ahmedsayed-ig.com
Microsoft plans to open up a development shop across the border in Vancouver, British Columbia, due to heavy restrictions on H1B visas in the united states, and the relative ease of bringing skilled migrants to Canada.
The Canada plans are notable because they will give the company a large software development center less than three hours by car from Redmond.
Read more:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog/archive/2007/07/09/canada.aspx
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=44222
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/322652_msftvancouver06.html
