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How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for

How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for being a tech hub in this sense. What's your personal impression about the availability of non-web related programming jobs?

agotterer 18y ago
This city does has non web related businesses. New York is known for finance and stocks. I have a friend who writes financial modeling software for a hedge fund. The scene does exist, but you have to go look for it. If you expect to go into a cafe and be surrounded by developers and tech folks, you will be vastly disappointed. The more events and meetups I attend the more I realize that this city is full of great talent, interesting companies and even some reputable VC's. The biggest "problem" for me personally has been weeding through all the non tech people to find others who are doing things that interest me.
- LukeG 18y ago
  tough time to be in finance...it looks like there's a net job outflow from Wall St, including for engineering positions.
  - agotterer 18y ago
    To be more clear, that is my overall take on New York. I cant really speak for the current NY job market as I haven't been searching. But I do have a few friends who have been laid off (interestingly none of the very qualified folks). The job market isn't all that wonderful anywhere else either. What I think will happen is some the people laid off from the various wall street positions will go start boutique shops... Long term they will be bought out and merged together to create larger groups...
    - LukeG 18y ago
      well how else would ibankers make their money?
  - ig1 18y ago
    If you're talented it's still not a major issue to get a job in finance, lots of people are getting let go, but the good people are finding new jobs pretty quickly. Plenty of banks are using this period to ramp up hiring to get the best talent for a bargin. C++ talent is always hard to hire regardless of the market.
- LukeG 18y ago
  http://www.nextny.org/ http://www.nextny.org/ and http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ are pretty established, but I can't speak for their quality myself. (um or http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1 http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1)
  - krschultz 18y ago
    I found my job through nextNY (Bug Labs) and my girlfriend found hers through new-tech, and the connection from that job led to the one she is currently at. Anecdotes != conclusions, but for us it worked very well.
    - krschultz 18y ago
      Probably should plug my own place huh? In NYC http://buglabs.net/jobs http://buglabs.net/jobs We're often putting up new jobs. At the moment we are looking for a QA engineer and a business intern (that one is probably San Fransisco but I'm not sure). I'm not very in tune with our hiring but for a while we were looking for development engineers too. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to drop a resume if you have experience with embedded Linux development (OpenEmbedded especially), JavaME/PhoneME, Eclipse plug-in development, and a passion for open source.
      - Shamiq 18y ago
        Seems like your business intern position is aimed at finding people from MBA programs. Is that correct?
      - LukeG 18y ago
        bug labs is doing awesome stuff, people should go work here. I would (try) if I wasn't caught up with this whole YC thing.
bhb 18y ago
I have a friend who works for pMDsoft in NYC. He says its got a great startup-like environment. http://www.pmdsoft.com/ChargeCapture/about_us/developer.html http://www.pmdsoft.com/ChargeCapture/about_us/developer.html If you want to talk to him directly, email me at ben at devver.net and I'll put you two in touch.
lallysingh 18y ago
I just finished a job-search for NYC. Some hedge funds are hiring, and aggressively. I get the idea that those hiring are suddenly flush with plenty of good applicants. I went with Bloomberg, who's still hiring aggressively. But, I got good leads on openings @ the Ars technica job board.

agotterer 18y ago

This city does has non web related businesses. New York is known for finance and stocks. I have a friend who writes financial modeling software for a hedge fund. The scene does exist, but you have to go look for it. If you expect to go into a cafe and be surrounded by developers and tech folks, you will be vastly disappointed. The more events and meetups I attend the more I realize that this city is full of great talent, interesting companies and even some reputable VC's. The biggest "problem" for me personally has been weeding through all the non tech people to find others who are doing things that interest me.

LukeG 18y ago
tough time to be in finance...it looks like there's a net job outflow from Wall St, including for engineering positions.
- agotterer 18y ago
  To be more clear, that is my overall take on New York. I cant really speak for the current NY job market as I haven't been searching. But I do have a few friends who have been laid off (interestingly none of the very qualified folks). The job market isn't all that wonderful anywhere else either. What I think will happen is some the people laid off from the various wall street positions will go start boutique shops... Long term they will be bought out and merged together to create larger groups...
  - LukeG 18y ago
    well how else would ibankers make their money?
- ig1 18y ago
  If you're talented it's still not a major issue to get a job in finance, lots of people are getting let go, but the good people are finding new jobs pretty quickly. Plenty of banks are using this period to ramp up hiring to get the best talent for a bargin. C++ talent is always hard to hire regardless of the market.
LukeG 18y ago
http://www.nextny.org/ http://www.nextny.org/ and http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ are pretty established, but I can't speak for their quality myself. (um or http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1 http://startuply.com/#/in%20new%20york/1)
- krschultz 18y ago
  I found my job through nextNY (Bug Labs) and my girlfriend found hers through new-tech, and the connection from that job led to the one she is currently at. Anecdotes != conclusions, but for us it worked very well.
  - krschultz 18y ago
    Probably should plug my own place huh? In NYC http://buglabs.net/jobs http://buglabs.net/jobs We're often putting up new jobs. At the moment we are looking for a QA engineer and a business intern (that one is probably San Fransisco but I'm not sure). I'm not very in tune with our hiring but for a while we were looking for development engineers too. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to drop a resume if you have experience with embedded Linux development (OpenEmbedded especially), JavaME/PhoneME, Eclipse plug-in development, and a passion for open source.
    - Shamiq 18y ago
      Seems like your business intern position is aimed at finding people from MBA programs. Is that correct?
    - LukeG 18y ago
      bug labs is doing awesome stuff, people should go work here. I would (try) if I wasn't caught up with this whole YC thing.

bhb 18y ago

I have a friend who works for pMDsoft in NYC. He says its got a great startup-like environment. http://www.pmdsoft.com/ChargeCapture/about_us/developer.html http://www.pmdsoft.com/ChargeCapture/about_us/developer.html If you want to talk to him directly, email me at ben at devver.net and I'll put you two in touch.

lallysingh 18y ago

I just finished a job-search for NYC. Some hedge funds are hiring, and aggressively. I get the idea that those hiring are suddenly flush with plenty of good applicants. I went with Bloomberg, who's still hiring aggressively. But, I got good leads on openings @ the Ars technica job board.