PS- To be clear I am not calling anyone who was let go - trash - it's just a saying. I mean those who were let go and not appreciated or valued here can be a great benefit to another company with more insight and understanding of the value of talented individuals that were cut for no good logical reason other than to save a buck. Let's all try to help one another out by posting leads!
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Anonymous65039 - Cisco was in talks behind closed doors before to snatch up Citrix entirely!
In S. FL. you should all contact Stephen V. at TekPartners ;-)
BEST RECRUITER EVER~!!! NO JOKE!!!
In S. FL., Ultimate Software. They had the balls to email A LOT of developers to their Citrix inbox informing them that they are hiring 150 engineers this year!
Talk about asking for a lawsuit!
The problem here is that South Florida have very slim pickings. I'm not trying to throw cold water to anyone, but these are the things that people need to be aware of.
Coming from what is the crème de la crème of South Florida tech scene (and Citrix is de local crème de la crème) won't necessarily help you. The local market is heavily skewed towards contractors.
Herein lies the problem - you would have to go through recruiters. And then, let's supposed you have been doing C++, but you have also done Java or C#. Guess what? Recruiters WILL NOT SEND YOU openings for Java or C# or whatever tech that you can do.
Similarly, if your last job was in mobile development, but you did a lot of web development, recruiters will not let you know of openings in web development that you are qualified for. They will just send you mobile dev openings.
They will pigeonhole to whatever last tech you did. And the problem is that, if for some reasons the local market is lacking openings on that last thing you did, you can be unemployed for a while until you find an opening on whatever you are getting pigeonholed by recruiters and HR, or break through into something else by luck, network connections or simply skewing your resume towards that opening.
In other words, keep several versions of your resume tailored to openings, and use multiple recruiting agencies. If you can do C# and C++ (or Java and C#), then use one set of recruiters for one tech stack, and another set of recruiters for another tech stack.
Don't ask me how I know. I went through that, and I was unemployed for months because recruiters were only sending me to C++ jobs while refusing to send me Java openings. It was like that for months till I got a job because of network connections from ex-colleagues.
Some of my very close friends might recognize me from what I'm about to describe, but that is fine. I had to have two versions of my resume, one showing my full line of work, and one for Java in which I completely erased and collapsed my last 4 years of C++ into a single line to make space to bring my 10+ years of Java experience to the front page.
So keep that in mind please as you do your job hunting. Recruiters will not forward your resume, nor notify you of openings except for those that match the last year of your most recent job.
You could have been doing, say, C++ for 20 years, but if your last 2 years were in Java, C# or Ruby, recruiters WILL NOT forward your resume to C++ jobs, nor let you know of C++ openings.
It might be different in other, more tech-inclined regions, but in this caveman-like area that is South Florida, that is the game you need to play because the recruiters and HR drones you interact with can't tell the difference from what you do from a glazed doughnut.
Good luck.
Myxer is done isn't? closed doors last year, no?
http://vmware.jobs/engineering-jobs/new-jobs/
http://jobs.cisco.com/go/Software-Engineering-Jobs/527500/ check it out - good luck
It would be great if Cisco, LogMeIn and VMware would snatch up Citrix talent.
Hey anyone in FTL locations- Emerson, Myxer, Ultimate Software, Abb Concise, ADT Security -I hear all those are company's are looking for talent. Check them out, hope this helps some people. I would also recommend getting in contact with recruiting companies out there like TeKPartners and Insight Global.
FTL location. Anything for SR SE positions, IT Security, Dev Mgr,etc.
Thank you for posting who ever posted. Thats the great thing we can do to each other at this difficult time. I am an engineer and i got effected. if someone post which companies are hiring in Northern California, esp citrix competitors, would be much appreciated. TIA
What kind of positions? What locations? I think someone posted a job opening for a Citrix engineer or manager a few years ago (Southern California) - I can dig it out if you guys thinks it's valuable