Why It Pays to be in Software!

What a great and timely article. It’s about time the youth of America start hearing about the actual strength of the US software market and that despite the overall success of outsourcing and the tech boom in countries like India and China (the pie is big enough for them to have their bite to), there couldn’t be a greater time to earn a degree in CS (or anything technical for that matter) and jump into the frenzy that exists amongst US Software powerhouses like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and the thousands of startups competing for the same talent. Check out this post I write about what the market considers to be a top performer and start building yourself up to be that guy/girl. The US is an always will be the land of opportunity and for that ambitious top performing individual, the world literally is your oyster.

So if you are a college graduate and you are still debating which career you are going to pursue and which field you will enter, consider the fact that as hot as the software marketplace is right now, we are only at 2.0 in terms of its growth. That means we still have so much innovation left to go, you will have plenty of work to do and job opportunities to pursue and companies to build before you have to contemplate another major decision – what to do with your time once you retire. In what other fields can you join as high profile a company as Facebook or Microsoft, be asked to work on a product that is literally used by millions of people worldwide (you know the whole make a difference thing) and get paid top dollar while you are at it.

And speaking of salary, just 2 months ago we helped a CS graduate from UC Berkeley with no work experience earn a base salary of 115k from a startup. Although that is very high for a college graduate, this guy is brilliant and will help this company build software that will be worth of millions of dollars to them, so who’s to say they’re wrong for paying it. So these opportunities are out there – it’s just up to you to be as great as you can be and go out and get them. Like Nike famously said – just do it!!!