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NVIDIA hiringNVIDIA hiringPosted Oct 4, 2013 18:17 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227)In reply to: NVIDIA hiring by ncm Parent article: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau
I 100% guarantee you that NVIDIA has no trouble with finding qualified applicants for their software development just because of some Free-software purists balking at the company. I have more than a few friends who work or worked at NVIDIA these days. The biggest problem they (and many other software companies) have these days is that the US has a shortage of experienced developers and getting VISAs for foreign workers is a very slow process (often taking around 6 months between when a company decides to hire a person and when that person can actually show up to their first day of work).
If your hypothesis were true, Microsoft wouldn't be the largest software company in the world, nor would most of these other top 10 companies be the top 10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software...
The most highly skilled and qualified people tend to go where the money is. Certainly there are people who have other priorities (I've so far avoided MS even though I know I'd be getting paid almost 3x as much as I do in game development, because I love game development), but those people are a minority.
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NVIDIA hiring Posted Oct 7, 2013 21:18 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I 100% guarantee you that NVIDIA has no trouble with finding qualified applicants for their software development just because of some Free-software purists balking at the company. I have more than a few friends who work or worked at NVIDIA these days. The biggest problem they (and many other software companies) have these days is that the US has a shortage of experienced developers and getting VISAs for foreign workers is a very slow process (often taking around 6 months between when a company decides to hire a person and when that person can actually show up to their first day of work).Er, yeah. That would be why NVIDIA has sizeable development going on in other places (heck, I walked right past their Cambridge, UK office the other day). It's not restricted to hiring in the US!
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