Mass. Unemployment down to 6.3% – recovery full steam ahead

More signs of the ever active and buoyant job market in MA – from today’s press release:

 

Massachusetts’ unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April and the state added 2,500 jobs, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Job gains in April follow a revised 7,500 job gain in March, per the state, which based their report on preliminary job estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Last month the unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent, down from 6.5 percent in March.The state’s rate is much lower than the current national unemployment rate of 8.1 percent.

 

The private sector added 3,400 jobs last month, while the government lost 900 jobs.

Year to date, the state has added 31,000 jobs.

In April, the professional, scientific and business services sector added the most jobs, at 4,200. Construction, manufacturing, education and government employment sectors were all net job losers for the month of April.

Concord, MA Startup looking for Software Engineers – Java, Python, jQuery, Hadoop, Cassandra, Clojure, Hbase, MongoDB. Sprinkle in some Ruby, Storm, Chef, bd3.js, node.js, and spine.js – scott@biviumgroup.com

 

 

 

Ground-Floor Startup Metrowest, MA

We are representing a newly funded startup that has money in the bank, and a proven team of entrepreneurs looking to do it again.

Client is EXCLUSIVELY working with Bivium to add to their team of ten, several new engineers.

Concord, MA area – big equity package (Series A range) and salaries DOE to 125/130k level.

General tech stack here is cutting edge and our client is looking for strong sharp generalists (top 5%-ers)

Java, Python, jQuery, Hadoop, Cassandra, Clojure, Hbase, MongoDB. Sprinkle in some Ruby, Storm, Chef, big client side JS stuff like d3.js, node.js, and spine.js

Recruiting for:

1 client-side UI opening (Javascript)

2 back-end person (Hadoop/Cassandra)

1 Clojure developer

1 NLP person (could overlap with back-end)

Please send a resume to jobs@biviumgroup.com – subject line “Concord startup” to learn more.

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Back from a great trip in Asia and ready to recruit great software engineers in Boston

 

 

So, did you miss me? It was definitely hard to take a break from the hottest job market for software engineers in Boston, MA since 1999… but the confluence of time and opportunity was just too hard to resist.

Among the great memories – hiking the Great Wall of China, sailing in Halong Bag, Vietnam, Cooking with Poo in Thailand, seeing Angkor Wat in Cambodia, visiting 1200 year old Temples in Japan, and eating some of the strangest, but most delicious food I’ve ever seen (including several Michelin award winners!)

So, jet lag in the rearview mirror, I focus my attention on the oodles of clients that need my attention…. and the phone/email never stopped being answered even when +13 hours away.

Looking forward to talking to super software engineers in the Boston area – Ruby/Rails, C#/.NET and Java/J2EE are all still in heavy demand …

“Big Data” as a hiring trend in the Boston Software Engineering Job Market – Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Cassandra, NoSQL

For those looking at or considering market trends in the Boston Software Engineer job market – one of the biggest trends that has been emerging for the past 12-18 months has been the Big Data/NoSQL world and all the related open source tools – Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Cassandra etc.

With Yahoo! being the catalyst and Ebay having huge success with their deployment, I’m finding many startups in the Boston, MA area looking at building ground-up, new products with some mix of these technologies.

With the Hortonworks/Eric Baldeschwieler/Cloudera types leading the charge — and data growing exponetnially in the coming years, I see HUGE opportunities for candidates to get into the action.

With that in mind, The Bivium Group has launched a new jobs category to highlight this fast growing area in the Software Engineering jobs market in Boston —- > http://bit.ly/pab66L

If you are looking to pivot or target your  career into one of the fastest growing segments of the tech economy, and remain on the cutting edge, you could do very well in 2012 and beyond in “Big Data”.

For a discrete and confidential discussion of your job search or hiring needs – please get in touch – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer jobs/recruiter!

 

 

 

 

#SoftwareEngineer #job in #Boston| Machine Learning/AI/NLP/Search – algorithms/Ph.D

#SoftwareEngineer #job in #Boston| Machine Learning/Search Ph.D to 130k, ground floor well funded #startup http://bit.ly/kL6zzL @scottdunlop

I was quoted in Boston Globe/Hiawatha Bray story about the job market in Boston for recent tech grads (Computer Science) – scott@biviumgroup.com

Hiawatha Bray, the great tech writer of the Boston Globe quoted me today in a story about the job market for recent grads in the Boston, MA area - http://bo.st/gXysPY

Although much of the interview wasn’t published, the salient points are definitely there — the market is hot, and good candidates are in demand. For the clients I work with, seeking software engineers/web developers in the Boston area – top grads (good internship, co-op, or strong autodidactic) comp sci/computer science experience or graduates of schools here in the Boston area such as:

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , Harvard, Northeastern, Tufts, WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Tufts, Brandeis, University of Massachusetts Amherst etc are definitely in the driver’s seat. Entrepreneurial candidates (always close to my heart) from schools like Babson, Bentley or really almost any other school where you pair your Computer Science skills with a strong personal track record of hacking/coding (github, personal webpage, active in a local tech community at a young age) are just as in-demand.

However, it’s not just having the degree, it’s having the ability to back-up your degree with real world skills that make you a great hire:

1. Communication skills – can you clearly articulate your skills, abilities, and interests? Will you work well with both technical and non-technical audiences?

2. Good team-player – there is little tolerance or room for people who cannot fit into a team environment.

3. Horsepower – you can show you can quickly pick-up new skills.

4. Tenacious – candidates who will keep working on a problem and attacking it from different angles.

5. Capacity to Learn – + a willingness to be a ‘sponge’ and absorb – your first job is all about learning/growing and building your career – are you willing to do the hard work to learn?

So, as a top 2011 Computer Science grad, the world is your oyster – it’s not a matter of whether you can find a job as a software engineer here in the Boston area, it’s whether you can find the BEST FIT for you (and maximize your time and value)– there are scores of companies hiring — you want someone in your corner who can help navigate the many pitfalls. You need someone like me – drop me a note if you wish to partner with Boston’s #1 software engineer recruiter – Scott Dunlop – scott@biviumgroup.com

My article “State of Tech Hiring in the Hub: The Talent War is On” is the Featured post on Bostinnovation – Boston Software Engineer job market is booming! – scott@biviumgroup.com – 2nd part

www.bostinnovation.com is running a series of articles this week about “Hiring In the Hub” and I was pleased to be asked to write, along with several other tech entrepreneurs, CEOs and Venture Capitalists, about the state of the market.

I was even more pleased to hear that my article was the Featured Story today - http://bostinnovation.com/2011/04/11/state-of-tech-hiring-in-the-hub-the-talent-war-is-on/

Due to space constraints (hey maybe I can make this Part 2) — I didn’t quite have room to expand on a few other trends in the Boston Talent war for :

5. This is a “Show-Me” Market

Managers are still running lean & mean when it comes to engineering departments – and even with the tight supply and demand issues out there — candidates are being asked to do virtual online-whiteboarding sessions before interviewing, walk through code samples once at the interview, and be subjected to intense Computer Science questioning – to test horsepower, agility, and problem-solving skills. So, preparation of candidates is key.

6.  Salaries are just getting un-stickied, and have not kept up with inflation/cost of living in Boston

It’s hard to believe, other than for the rockstar/ninjas junior-mid-level candidates, but otherwise, for strong Senior Software Engineer or Principal Software Engineer and above, salaries have not kept track with inflation over the past decade — not helping are the two recessions either.

7. “No Jerks” Policy, other interesting benefits, and hiring-by-committee are trendy right now

Certainly none of us ever want to work with a “jerk”, but how many of us want to work with a Dog/Cat or Baby in the cube next to us? It’s all a matter of perspective. The nicest B-player will never produce as much as the “jerkiest” A+ so, companies and recruiting teams are starting to employ hiring by committee to make group-think decisions. In general, they work well, but as a candidate, you’ve got to be “ON” from the moment you walk in the door to the moment you walk out.

8. With salaries mostly flat, other benefits are critical – vacation, healthcare, flex-time, holidays etc

Since salaries have been flat for the past decade, the other fringe benefits have improved – pretty standard now are 3 weeks vacation (some offering as much as 5 weeks to start) , 10+ companies holidays, and with the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, most firms have kept a lid on the portion that tech employees are paying to 20% (or less) – in fact many have moved to 100% paid medical as an outlier to help in recruiting.

So, the talent war in Boston rages on — with Q2 underway, and even more busy than Q1!

Bivium Group recruiting #Boston #Software Engineer position – Windows Kernel Mode/Drivers/Shims – C/C++ – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 software engineer jobs/recruiter!

Bivium Group recruiting #Boston #SoftwareEngineer Windows Kernel/Drivers/Shims C/C++ to 140k Lexington, MA http://bit.ly/dWNbPb @scottdunlop

Multiple Top Venture Capital funds closed in record time – Accel Partners, Bessemer biggest funds yet – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s top software engineer recruiter/jobs

Continued signs of the market being red-hot are the VC funds themselves raising big, big rounds for their funding- Accel’s China fund raised 1.3B and Bessemer raised 1.6B their biggest ever. Time to close out the funding pools was down from 6 months to 10 weeks! Surely a sign of more investments to come over the next three quarters in 2011 — the Boston Software Engineer market will absolutely benefit from this new funding – full article here http://on.wsj.com/gRRViX

Web Software Engineer – Groovy/Grails (Java), Ruby/Rails, or Python/Django – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 software engineer recruiter/jobs

#Boston Web #SoftwareEngineer #biviumgroup- Groovy/Grails (Java), Ruby/Rails, or Python/Django hot startup http://ow.ly/4pYI8 @scottdunlop

Bivium Group exclusive job, Lead Software Engineer LAMP/PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS – Boston, MA – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s top software engineer jobs/recruiter

Bivium Group exclusive job, Lead #SoftwareEngineer Software Manager LAMP/PHP/MySQL #Boston, MA, profitable to 130k http://ow.ly/4pQhL

USA Today cover story Tech Hiring is Hot – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 software engineer recruiter/jobs!

USA Today cover story Tech Hiring is Hot – http://usat.me?45509482 – well, d’uh! #boston #software engineers are in demand @scottdunlop

Lead Software Engineer-Java, algorithms, supercomputing, biotech startup, Cambridge, MA to 160k+ options @scottdunlop http://ow.ly/4nGbC – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter/jobs

Lead Software Engineer-Java, algorithms, supercomputing, biotech startup, Cambridge, MA to 160k+ options @scottdunlop http://ow.ly/4nGbC

Outstanding opportunity - This is NOT your standard J2EE app.  It is high performance distributed computing, very mathematically and algorithmically intense.  It’s much closer to pure computer science than just putting together a lot of open source frameworks.

Drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com to learn more – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter/jobs

Woburn, MA rockstar/ninja software engineers – junior candidates 0-6 years to 100k – java/C# – hardcore computer science skills! – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s top software engineer jobs/recruiter

Woburn, MA rockstar/ninja software engineers/web developer 0-6 yrs to 100k+ Java/C#/OO @scottdunlop #tweetmyjobs #boston http://ow.ly/4lInR

Hands-on tech lead, grow to VP LAMP stack, Cambridge, MA, profitable, <1 yr old $24M+ revenue http://ow.ly/4iRu7 scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer jobs/recruiter

Hands-on tech lead, grow to VP LAMP stack, Cambridge, MA, profitable, <1 yr old $24M+ revenue http://ow.ly/4iRu7 @scottdunlop #jobs #boston

Promoting entrepreneurship in teens – great WSJ article – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 software engineer jobs/recruiter

As someone who has been a lifelong entrepreneur, I always applaud programs such as this one – Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship – much more info on this WSJ article - http://on.wsj.com/i2k0eq

It’s become both a necessity and “en-vogue” to start your own company in recent years — but, I truly believe than unless we start promoting, investing and identifying Young Entrepreneurs, and giving them the guidance, assistance and mentoring they need — it’s a tremendously wasted opportunity — the future of the USA brainshare is at stake!

In the Boston, MA software engineering/computer science market – we have a fabulous ecosystem to promote these sorts of opportunities – VCs, universities, and senior/experienced mentors/entrepreneurs abound.

If you’ve got a great idea, or already building the “next big thing” — I’m always happy to network and be a “connector”.

Drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer jobs/recruiters

Ruby/RoR/Rails or Java/EC2/big data Architect – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter

Ruby/RoR/Rails or Java/EC2/big data Architect, package 125-180k total Boston, MA #tweetmyjobs #ruby #boston @scottdunlop http://ow.ly/4fWep

Ruby/Rails/RoR software engineers in Boston, MA are in high demand — perhaps this role is a step or two above you? Then take a look at the following 20+ other software/web development positions I am recruiting for:

http://www.biviumgroup.com/search.php?category_id=37 – our entire roster of Ruby/RoR/Rails jobs in Boston, MA

 

Multiple offer scenarios very common in Boston, MA and increasing in the Executive ranks – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter

In the Boston, MA software engineer job market — we are seeing multiple offers becoming the “norm” — whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, depends on your perspective. Firms that make quick offers and then put tremendous pressure to accept or decline before a candidate has seen all their job interviews through to completion, IMHO are doing the candidates a disservice. (But I do understand the motivation!)

Who wants to make arguably, one of the most important decisions for the next few years, without some degree of certainty, and all the information on the table?

“Bidding-wars” and multiple offers with signing bonuses, excessive salary outliers and weird perks are starting to re-enter the market, and for me, are a signal flashing “warning” – not about the market, but just about being sure to carve out your own time necessary to make a decision and not find your self seeking work again in a few months.

This WSJ article confirms several data points - http://on.wsj.com/ec8yHj

**51% of candidates are receiving multiple offers vs.35% a year ago

**56% of recruiters have seen “sweetened” offers at the offer stage

With the recent market turmoil in Japan, it’s hard to tell if the USA-wise recovery will be pushed off, but, my expectation is that we’ll be having a few bumpy/uncomfortable weeks (globally) but the job recovery, at least in the Boston, MA software engineer job market has a lot of momentum. Hearts, prayers and thoughts to all those in Japan.

Lots of openings, but why can’t some companies actually hire? Boston software engineering market can learn from this WSJ article – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software engineer recruiter

I get the calls pretty much every day now — some variation of:

*”where are all the good candidates”

*”we hired so many more people 16 months ago, what’s wrong with you, or us, or candidate”

*”what else can we do to attract cool ninja, hacker, superstar, blah blah blah types”

The biggest issues right now for so many companies, is that they seemingly want to fill their entire team with top 1-5%ers — and who can blame them as productivity, and harmony prevails — but, what happens when you combine a red-hot market, with some managers, or HR folks, still thinking about that “next candidate” who just might show up in another day, week or month? You get the market we’re in right now! Where the number of job openings keep climbing, but the number of hires, is actually going down.

This WSJ article pretty much sums it up:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704410004576182780887145442.html

I can definitely echo this comment:

“Nowadays, if managers speak to a really great candidate, instead of hiring him, they take it as an indication that there must be 10 even better people out there,” says Todd Safferstone, director of CLC Recruiting, a unit of the Corporate Executive Board.

My advice — if you see a really great candidate, you’d better start thinking about how to make them a great offer, otherwise someone else WILL hire them while you mull it over.

Want to talk strategy about not just hiring, but actually recruiting/attracting and retaining a star software engineer? Drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter/headhunter.

C++ OpenGL/DirectX graphics software engineer – 100% telecommute from MA/RI/VT/ME/NH – – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s top software engineer jobs/recruiter

C++ OpenGL/DirectX graphics software engineer, 100% telecommute from MA/NH/ME/VT 140k http://ow.ly/4bgVi @scottdunlop #tweetmyjobs #boston

New businesses being created at a 15 year high – CNN article

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the USA economy, and despite all the turmoil, noise, and discontent new companies are forming at the highest rate anywhere within the last 15 years. The CNN article goes into more depth and certainly echoes what I see:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/smallbusiness/new_business_starts/index.htm

The Boston, MA software engineering job market is red hot and I’d love to chat if you’re considering dipping your toes into the market – drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter!

 

Frothy Job Market for software engineers/web developers noted by CNN/Money – Boston area just as crazy

I’ve had the pleasure of being involved in several lead stories on hiring on CNN and Money magazine, although not this particular one — I could very well have echoed and shared some of the same observations in the local Boston, MA job market for software engineers — simply put, things are dividing into the “haves” and “have nots” when it comes down to software/coding skills.

I recently had dinner with one of the original architects of the Windows 3.x kernel who has long since retired to the West Coast and had a nice long conversation with a local entrepreneur who has moved his startup to the East Coast – both, lamenting friends, colleagues and companies struggling to attract “top notch” talent — there is definitely no lack of average talent out there, but it’s the top 1-5% where the market is at it’s fiercest for competition.

With Google and many of our clients routinely paying salaries close/at six figures for a recent grad, yet a similar salary for a solid Senior/Principal software engineer — one has to ask “why” — I think this article on CNN/Money covers that ground well:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/tech_engineers_wanted/index.htm

The market here in Boston, and in Silicon Valley/New York  are coming up with lots of new companies, all looking to chase a finite number of stars …. if you are a “star software engineer” looking for a top-notch firm, it can be hard to differentiate between the buzz out there — do yourself a favour, and drop me a line to sort out the real star companies from the “pretenders”.

scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter/headhunter

Venture Capital/VC Startups/New Ventures/Small Businesses now on a hiring binge across Boston, MA and the USA!

Here at Bivium I spend about 70-75% of my time working with small businesses — the under 100 person company, and most of the time under 30 people — these are, and always will be, the growth engines of the American economy. We’ve benefited in the Boston/Mass. area that the VC/tech startup world has been very active for over 18 months — even during the depths of the “Great Recession” we were very busy with select clients upgrading their talent pool — the recovery is now more uniformly distributed and it’s becoming a self-sustaining recovery. As part of my volunteer work, I stay close in touch with “Main Street” and the struggles of the non-tech economy through a variety of Chambers of Commerce — finally, late last year, I started to see tangible efforts to invest in hiring, new inventory, which in turn will reinforce the need for software/services/IT for 2011 and beyond.

All of this is reflected in this article on CNN - http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/04/smallbusiness/small_business_hiring_adp/index.htm

and on this ADP payroll report

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/02/news/economy/challenger_adp_jobs/index.htm?iid=EL

The “headline” about layoffs should not be too startling — even in the booming 90s, planned/reported layoffs in a smaller labour pool market typically were 200-250k a month — it’s a healthy element to a functioning macro labour market.

As much as ever, we need entrepreneurs, VC-backed startups and small businesses to continue their optimism — hiring, GDP growth and consumer expansion will always follow!

 

Happy New Year! 2011 looks to be a winner for Software Engineers in Boston, MA job market

Happy New Year — I hope everyone’s holidays were wonderful, relaxing and full of surprises (not the ones involving excessive airport delays!).

All signs over Nov/Dec and entering Jan point to a very robust job market for the Boston, MA software engineering market — evidence abounds that the macro-economic picture has vastly improved, and hiring is primarily a momentum/psychology-driven lagging indicator. Facebook could be preparing a $50Billion IPO in the 2nd half of the year, Google announced a 10% across the board salary increase + the stock market’s end of year rally, has many in a very positive mood.

As I look forward into 2011, there is a huge, unmet demand for top-notch Computer Science/Software engineers across 128,95, Boston, Cambridge and points North/South and MetroWest. From Java/J2EE to Ruby/RoR, Database internals and every level of experience from Upcoming/Recent Computer Science Grads all the way to talented VPs of Engineering.

Like so many, I am cautiously optimistic and anticipate a very, very strong 2011 for the software engineering job market.

Good luck and here’s to a great 2011 for all of us!

Scott

Java/OpenSource/Cassandra/MapReduce/Hadoop Software Engineer job – Cambridge, MA to 130k

Java/OpenSource/Cassandra/MapReduce/Hadoop/MySQL – Cambridge, MA – Big Data @scottdunlop – #jobs#tweetmyjobs#boston http://ow.ly/316UG

MA unemployment down to 8.4% – software engineers in high demand!

MA unemployment down to 8.4% http://ow.ly/2ZAva software engineers in demand in Mass – @scottdunlop – Java/C#/LAMP/startups/VC market hot!

The same trends as have been around much of the year — the “hot spot” for experience seems to be 1-10 years — very limited demand for very senior/principal/architect candidates, and fresh grads (unless Ivy). That said, I continue to see very positive trends for end of the year, and continuing into 2011.

If companies would be just a bit more “open minded”  about their perceptions of candidates, I could see a LOT more hiring going on, with the demand side of the job market RED HOT (Lots of jobs, but clients still aiming for “perfection”).

For a confidential discussion – feel free to reach out – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston area’s #1 software engineer recruiter/headhunter

#tweetmyjobs Cambridge, MA Flex/ActionSc

#tweetmyjobs Cambridge, MA Flex/ActionScript/AS3 contract to perm 75/hr 1099 http://ow.ly/2Ub1b @scottdunlop

#tweetmyjobs #cambridge Lead/Director of

#tweetmyjobs #cambridge Lead/Director of Web Development – Python/Django/B2C/Ecommerce opp to 150k http://ow.ly/2QQe5 @scottdunlop

#jobs #boston Video Protocols Software E

#jobs #boston Video Protocols Software Engineer – C++ Linux – Marlborough, MA http://ow.ly/2QcLP @scottdunlop

#job #boston Embedded Software Architect

#job #boston Embedded Software Architect – C++/Linux Marlborough, MA to 135k http://ow.ly/2Qcz1 @scottdunlop

Principal RIA/Flex/Silverlight GUI Softw

Principal RIA/Flex/Silverlight GUI Software Engineer – Marlborough, MA area http://ow.ly/2Qbw3 @scottdunlop #jobs #boston

#jobs #boston Human Factors/UI Architect

#jobs #boston Human Factors/UI Architect Cambridge, MA to 130k, http://ow.ly/2OhSh @scottdunlop

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k h

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k http://ow.ly/2ITIa, super high growth company & role #jobs #SQA #boston #startup

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k h

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k http://ow.ly/2ITIa, super high growth company & role #jobs #SQA #boston #startup

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k h

Cambridge, MA SQA Lead/Manager to 130k http://ow.ly/2ITIa, super high growth company & role #jobs #SQA #boston #startup @scottdunlop

Performance Engineer/Software QA Performance Engineer – Framingham, MA, to 115k – scott@biviumgroup.com

Framingham, MA, to 115k, performance software engineers/performance QA – stable, growing, http://ow.ly/2FsFN #tweetmyjobs #Boston #QA #jobs

MA GDP up 6.4% vs. 2.4 for USA – booming software engineer market in Boston, MA

This Boston Business Journal article confirms exactly what I’ve been saying and seeing for months now – the market in Boston has clearly turned a corner and things are very positive heading into the 2nd half of 2010 – http://bit.ly/cTrXqF
As the article states, the Mass. economy expanded at 6.4%, including payroll growth of 4.5% – pretty impressive stuff, especially considering the national economy.

Mass. Venture Capital/VC funding up, waay up in Q2 – by 19%

Q2 was a huge quarter here in the Boston, MA market — with $792.2 million over 81 deals – representing 19% uptick on the activity side, and 56% in volume – the whole article can be found here – http://bit.ly/a8xF5h  but this is consistent with the huge market shift I’ve been seeing in the past 6 months — the market is very active and very hot — across all tiers from junior software engineers up to principal software engineers. LOTS of RoR/Rails work, J2EE remains active, and tons of C#/.NET 3.5/4.0.

Drop me a line if you’d like to chat – scott@biviumgroup.com

Cambridge, MA software engineers – startup with Google connections – multiple STAR software engineer openings – Rails, Python, Cassandra, Riak, Hadoop, HBase, Redi, Seam, puppet, chef, capistrano, fabric etc

http://bit.ly/bB3NEk

Our client, with patents pending and all-star team assembled in entering hyper-growth mode on the engineering side.

We are working directly with the Founders and have already made successful, happy placements.

We think one of the key attractions for our client is that they are dealing with massive data ! They add on average 93M records per day and are already beginning to work with the same database systems that Google and Facebook are using – super huge intellectual challenge here

This is a title-agnostic environment.

Could hire from a Very experienced, very solid VP Engineering/CTO who wants to be coding and growing in a small company to several VERY smart junior engineers and everywhere in-between Lots of responsibility and growth potential!

Keywords: Java, J2EE, Cassandra, Riak, Hadoop, HBase, Redi, Seam, puppet, chef, capistrano, fabric, scott dunlop, the bivium group

Drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston area’s #1 Software Engineer recruiter!

Mass Tech Software Engineer Job market – it’s a talent war like 1999

Reflecting the increasingly challenging recruiting market everyone sees – people going on the record to talk about how hard recruiting star candidates has quickly become.

I’m seeing the exact same trends, and VERY savvy juniors on up asking the same good questions – investors, burn rate, equity allocation, options details and future growth positioning — all critical questions and companies not prepared, or ill-prepared, should be ready to lose the oncoming talent war. Demographics in Boston area are working against us — better adjust expectations.

If you’re looking to get a leg up on the competition in the Boston, MA software engineering talent war — drop me a line – scott@biviumgroup.com – Boston area’s #1 software engineer recruiter!

Full Mass High Tech article is here http://bit.ly/cX6BLU