Correspondent from New York
Plenty of C# and VB.NET jobs but... Delphi Jobs?
Your correspondent was looking the job scene in US. For the longest time, there was no unified job-search that could search Monster, Dice, US-Jobs and other job websites. Now there is one where you can search jobs and get a unified answer.
Website search: www.indeed.com (query for keyword "C#")
Learning C# is good decision: You can get a $50,000+ job easily. There are plenty of jobs to go around.
Learning Delphi is a bad decision: Most of the jobs pay for peanuts or there are so few jobs, maybe 5,000 people will apply for the same job.
Your correspondent decided to call some companies around the NY area to see the job market around where your correspondent live - Newark, Bronx, Queens, New Jersey area.
Of the Delphi Jobs
- Most of the jobs which refer to Delphi refer to Delphi Restaurant Booking system, Delphi Hotel Management system. Those are low-paid per hour jobs bordering minimum wage.
I went to OmniHotels and asked about this, they refer to the Delphi Hotel Management System, not Embarcadero Delphi. This is funny because it seems more hotels are using a product now written in C# and ASP.NET (see the hotel's website) than in Delphi itself.
Trademark Dilution - Someone should take a trademark lawsuit and either rename "Delphi Hotel Management System" to something else, or rename Delphi to "Fringe-Pascal" or "Lunatic Pascal".
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Delphi Jobs?? |
- In other areas, the business subsidiary of General Motors - Delphi places more jobs for low-skilled workers than jobs for Embarcadero Delphi.
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Bubba Delphi Jobs?? |
In the end, there are only a handful of Delphi jobs which apprentice Delphi developers can join.
Jobless Recovery?
One wonders with the Economic climate going around, if there is enough Delphi jobs to go around for the former students brought-up on TurboPascal or Delphi. Any college or high-school which teaches Delphi is asking for trouble because there are so few jobs, their students would be jobless for long periods of time.
Pirates Ahoy
One possible reason why there are so few Delphi jobs, is the effect on component and library software piracy. You can download DevExpress build v56 (with references to this blog), TMS latest build (with references to this blog) and other things without paying a single penny for it. Since the work is $100++ per hour, there seems to be no reason to pay for anything - effectively destroying the whole Embarcadero Delphi business.
Unemployment Insurance
Most of my friends are almost on the 90th week of unemployment insurance - spending almost 2 fruitless years trying to find a job. They are dead scared if social security stops on them. I feel lot of sympathy for them, but I cannot help them - the money is too much and to restart a Delphi business costs too much money (i.e., legal + legit business).
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Honestly waiting 2 years is too long. This does not work in a developers life.
Our focus on the university was, they pushed us into different languages PL/I, Modula, C, C++, Object Pascal, Smalltalk, Oberon, PERL with the Focus to very fast get to know a new technology.
This was helpful when I started to work with SAP. The is was the retro host experience. This takes longer.
But Windows programming especially native C/C++ was never accepted in business IT, Delphi was maybe an alternative seen more as 4GL. This is the bigger portion of the whole Software market.
The nice Delphi jobs are gone, because companies that have a product they maintain it or extend it very often with JVM + Web. This is an option ... JRuby maybe.
Maybe a nice in-house job outside development is still an alternative, not well paid but nice. You need an affinity for technical challenge today. There are to many who do the simple things in development.
Get speedy on the way, the sourcing for the data centers in the last phase and then will come the laying off and then you have people in the market with some years experience in complex environment ... then you are done if you have not switched ... assuming someone wants to be employed what I would suggest for the next decade in general, because the business is done more and more by bigger companies. The Cloud market is still for hugest corporates.
Delphi will not come back in the way it was, if ever. It's for nice people, who write Software for other nice people. I don't know a lot nice people that have money:)
Hey, we are hiring Delphi developers at Gateway Ticketing:
http://www.gatewayticketing.com/careers/index.aspx
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