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Why Symbian Jobs opportunities are very less
| Tue, 2005-06-21 08:37 | |
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I always hear that Symbian is market leader, 180 % growth bla bla.. . But if try for a Symbian Job in the market, It is very difficult to find some thing, In UK there are some Symbian opportunities (Including Symbian, Nokia..). But the Salary is extremely low as compared with Windows opportunities . There is very very little opportunities in US and Europe (Except some in UK) What will be the feature for Symbian developers ? Regards, MeenuJ |
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Regards,
Isseyp
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get's offshored to India or China, just a bit goes here (Eastern Europe). Symbian strongholds
are still in the Western Europe and Scandinavia keeping salaries high. So just wait until
guys in Bangalore will catch up with it
cheers,
A.
algis
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I have same feeling as MeenuJ. Coming from Europe (France and Scandinavia and living now in US), I think some of reasons might be:
o European companies (like Nokia for S60, Sony Ericsson for UIQ, Symbian etc) are not as good as american companies and cultures for promoting something and doing advertisement for soemthing. Look at first version of Internet Explorer but it took over the market and bypassed Netscape.
o Symbian community has been more a close community and not too much information and knowledge so that developers can learn the language only PSP long time as only book, I don't know why because of security or 007 James Bond culture or so
I don't know but one thing I know is as example Ericsson in Sweden they had a very good language called Erlang which was before Java and people behind that wanted to spread it on internet and spread the knowledge. The management didn't want that, then Java came and took over.
But you saw C or C++ come out from AT&T and take over whole world.
So I think one part is ourself developers and management of these companies if we don't promote this language and don't spread the knowledge and everybody tries to keep the knowledge for him/herself then it will die. Qualcomm and Brew with their marketing and WINCE have started and go very agressive.
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That's one step forward for humanity and getting stable OS in mobile phones. But as you said the pressure is high here and other actors very active. If for companies and operators it becomes difficult to find symbian / S60 / UIQ developers or they are too expensive then they go to other solutions like Wince, Brew etc.
So part of the job is ourself to promot this language and try to do like JAVA increasing number of developers by knowledge sharing, like web sites NewLC or others.
Br,
Rosso
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Not as good or not as aggressive as Microsoft? IE is an especially bad example as it didn't have to be better than Netscape, just simply part of Windows. I prefer a company not being as aggressive as MS even if it's not that popular.
Close community, who closed it? It's been on the internet for several years, maybe somebody didn't find it? Good books have been also available for years, though I must admit that PSP had ruled the world for a long time.
So part of the job is ourself to promot this language and try to do like JAVA increasing number of developers by knowledge sharing, like web sites NewLC or others.
Qualcomm and Brew? What are these? Do you say they are aggressively advertised then why aren't they popular in Europe? I have naturally heard about WINCE, but look at how a WINCE phone looks like and work compared to a Symbian phone.
Java is advertised well, but imho a mobile application written in Java can never compete with the same application written in C++ for Symbian.
Gabor Torok
Software architect, Agil Eight (http://www.agileight.com/)
Blog: http://mobile-thoughts.blogspot.com/
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Hi
I am kiran working as HR for UK based comapny. where we work on Symbian,Windows Mobile,Embeded systems out over.
This company had started oprations in India recently where they are been left out with plenty of Opportunities on Symbian and windows mobile.
According to my knowledge over in my company the salary range is above the market and there is a flexibility for changing from Symbian to windows and from windows to symbian in due course of time.so according to me the maket out over here is fine and lot more opportunities are been available.
If you are been looking for better opportunities and willling for it please let me know or put me a mail to this ID .