Can you tell their recruiters to stop calling me every 3 months and saying the opposite? lol
Just like every recruiting firm, recruiters do everything in “mass” form - simple search on titles, previous companies, recommendations, social network presence, location, etc.
I have been contacted by companies to be a VP of their Disaster Recovery which requires 8 years experience. If they do a simple review they would see that I have no where near that much experience and avoid those individuals.
I refer recruiters to bulk mailers, very similar to credit card offers that come in the mail, hoping for a sucker to respond and find out that the APR they promise is not achievable.
I understand how recruiting works thanks…
The interactions I have had with Yahoo and other companies has been extremely specific and directed Infosec/infosec research is an extremely small field.
Lots of companies will throw around requirements for degrees however for the appropriate person they will bend.
In most cases it’s not the norm anymore for degree requirements in technology related jobs
Very true. Some of the best programmers I know were self-taught with no degree. It’s their hobby.
Jobs are possible but they take more effort here. I am referring to a lot of positions that require in person work and not shifted to the hire from anywhere/work from home ideology which is still new to a lot of companies here.
- The pool is smaller and for jobs you need to be in person in the office, you are limited to the scope of the area.
- The larger companies with larger IT staffs usually have to be based here or you are working under a larger IT organization from a remote office or a parent company as a lower level in most cases
- Companies here hire people they know, making the effort to social network in your industry critical to moving up in the world.
- Buffalo has a lot of traditional companies, not as many forward thinking jobs so IT is still an expense and not an investment
- Buffalo companies are smaller so IT jobs usually are more jack of all trades vs specialized higher paying positions like senior engineers. I know a ton of companies that have their AD admin making firewall changes, running backups and also replacing terminals vs companies who dedicate staff to the long growth.
Not sure if it is relevant now but the net add when they opened was not a lot of the senior engineers or highers ups. Their postings were a lot of lower level positions as they moved people into the area that had the Yahoo values which for the point of this topic, makes my point that these jobs didn’t exist in Buffalo and people didn’t get promoted here. They lived elsewhere, working and moved up in the company as you said.
All of IT is in cycles. Companies buy a lot of stuff when they need it, then let it age, and then hire again when some industry shift requires them to change their normal functions about looking at IT. The most recent shift that businesses found as you said are that when IT is down, the company STOPS. This is causing the new wave of on hand talent and even causing a lot of companies to pull talent in house instead of using the consultant/contractor model and letting knowledge leave.
Interesting I never really looked it like this usually it gets rolled under security or operations.
At Yahoo, it is under Operations.
From what I see, it is now all about site up, breaking with grace (rather than http errors), GEO availability, virtualization/openstack, Replications, moving away from tapes.
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All full time hires regardless of job level are reviewed by Marrissa and her Executive staff. If the position is full time and non contractor a BA is needed. I believe if a contractor gets hired, they might be able to be transferred to full time without a BA. However, as boxxa stated, the contractor population has decreased dramatically at Yahoo.
What department at Citi? I just moved out of state a few weeks ago and quit. I worked in Yield Book. When I first got hired there I was one of only a few people on my team with a BS and the entire department got moved to India anyway.
It is nice to see a company like Blackrock move up to Buffalo. I wonder if the jobs will only be technology and operations or if some actual finance positions will come from it.
MBAs are good if your company wants to pay you to move into a management position. I am not too familiar with many people who come out of a MBA program day one and land a Director or higher job without any experience.
I’m under ISG on the Entity Data Management team. Could do this job when I was still in high school, this place is so frustrating to work at.
I’m looking to leave asap and I’ve been here 2 years (1 as a temp).
CIO perhaps. I’m under the general impression that CIOs really don’t know much on the technical side of things.
Are we talking in the real world or buffalo businesses?
I think Buffalo. I think Buffalo has a more laxed approach on hiring. Like…oh it says here he cleaned viruses out of laptops…let’s hire him for server administrator.
I interviewed someone with a doctorate in computer science the other day :lol:
This falls under what I said with everyone here is the jack of all trades for a job and people are not specialized much here. Not true for the bigger companies but Buffalo has a lot of overlapping IT
Did you know how to talk to a non script kiddie peer? Lol
Most CIOs I have dealt with are pretty savvy. Some, depending on how they have been out of the engineering world, they may not know the latest trends or have specific knowledge about every realm of IT but a lot I have met know enough to be dangerous and aren’t some MBA person that got out of college with no skills or experience.
CIO = I attended some conference last month they said “cloud” and now we have to do it.
Yeah, usually I get assigned a bunch of work have to reach out to a bunch of people because of some grand idea. Then it gets canceled or never used, so I just waste time.
This is interesting. Somehow I missed this story when it initially came out.