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Yes and it has a CS department. Although, I have a feeling it is not such a strong department.

• cimmanom 8y ago
  It may be that the best graduates are leaving town because of a lack of challenging or well-paying jobs. Have you interviewed any brand new grads? Surely immediately after completing a CS degree you’d be able to write a function with a simple loop? How competitive is the salary you’re offering?
  • SMFloris 8y ago
    Yes, candidates are leaving this city. Some of them return though, but prefer working in corporations (lots of benefits, not so stressful job, etc). I don't think we had any fresh grads, although we did do some efforts in organising workshops based on the tech we use in order to meet devs and some of them were pretty young, but without a CS degree. Our salaries are pretty competitive, its as much as you would get in a bigger city. Other companies here face the exact problem we are facing, but I think they can attract talent based on job security alone (i.e. IBM), whereas we don't know if we're going to be around next year unless we get another round :) I do agree that there is a lack of challenging jobs around here, most companies are web-shops that do basic websites/blogs/web-apps. We had a candidate that spent 2 years doing just css/html for forms.
    • cimmanom 8y ago
      I suggest you try recruiting on campus toward the end of each semester, and right after graduation in spring. Maybe even try to get some interns. Young grads will be hungry and trainable, and are facing the toughest hiring market of any software developers these days. And if the program is halfway decent, they should at least be capable of writing a fizzbuzz after graduation. The downside is that new grads need a LOT of training.