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Software Companies Beg For Qualified Job Candidates
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The biggest problem the U.S. software industry faces is finding enough qualified software engineers, according to several major software firms. "I'd say that has been the industry's biggest problem in the past year," says GravityPeople's Jeff Winter. "You have a harder time finding and hiring people for open positions." Winter says the problem is not likely to get better any time soon.
The number of college graduates with computer science and information science degrees has slowed over the past 10 years, even as venture funds continue to support software startups with billions of dollars in financing.
The relative lack of computer science graduates is a top concern, agrees ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman. "The world is made up of software these days, and these jobs are going to be in high demand for a long time," Slootman says.
Even for fast-growing companies, hiring has been slower than expected. For example, ServiceNow has nearly quadrupled its staff in the past 18 months, but it still has 150 unfilled jobs, mostly for software engineers. "It's about as bad as we've seen it since the late 1990s," Slootman says. "Companies fight each other tooth and nail for able bodies and minds."
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