[TriLUG] OT: PT One tech issue from tonight's debate

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Ron Kelley wrote:

> Right....  Because those are not really jobs, right?  What kind of IT career are you *specifically* looking for?
>
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Ron Kelley wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, visit the NetApp "careers" page and look for jobs 
>>> in NC - RTP with the keyword "storage".  There are 56 
>>> current job openings.
>>
>> yes
>>
>> you didn't mention that 32 are management, windows, new grad, interns, sales, marketing and answering the phone.

looking at the remaining 24 storage jobs: I expect they have 
quite nice salaries and can be filled at any NetApp site. 
Presumably the team is spread all over the country.

I expect these jobs require special skills; filesystems, 
fibrechannel, embedded programming of disk array 
controllers, flash cache, nfs/cifs. I expect for a nice 
salary, they'd want 10yrs of programming.

Where are you going to get someone with 10yrs of any of 
these skills? (Where are you going to find someone who's 
been programming the same system for 10yrs and wants more?) 
>From within the company, or from your competitor(s). No-one 
else has 10yrs of these skills. Why would a person from the 
competition want to move to exactly (or almost) the same 
job. I don't know. Perhaps they can't be promoted there.

The only competitor is EMC^2 and they only have a storage 
facility here. The programmers are in Boston (AFAIK). So the 
only place NetApp can fill the NC positions, without someone 
moving, is from within the company.

If so, this would indicate that none of those 24 jobs at 
NetApp in NC will be filled by regular programmers out and 
about in RTP.

Joe

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