Development job going at Q2 Solutions.

Located near Park Rd in Milton, with a Level 5 view overlooking river, city and Southbank.

Great company that is growing amazingly fast with interesting work and great people.

Boss is great (took us all Golfing for day on Monday) and heaps of nice people to talk to all day.

Company is stable with HEAPS of money behind it and a massive client base that grows constantly.

Looking for someone with some level of Programming. Prefer some ASP.NET experience but not required really.

Either Junior or someone with more experience.

Send resumes to zane@q2solutions.com.au

p.s. Don't ask about pay as that's up to you and boss to decide.

I've got a C++ (games) programming degree. Does that count? I don't know any web programming languages though such as asp and php etc.. Though I know HTML and XML.

Any info on the position? I can't seem to find anything on the Q2 website.

There is no info on website.

We just have all this new work coming in that we need at least 1 new person.

And seeing how we have a computer, desk and chair already setup and waiting for a developer, seems a shame if nobody applied.

So feel free to send your resume in even if you don't think you qualify.

We mainly work in ASP.NET building a few core products that are generally Intranets. Sometimes we develop a support application in VB.NET or VB or PowerBuilder but mostly web stuff here.

Don't need to be an expert, i didn't know any ASP.NET when i started here and picked it up in first month. I knew heaps of other languages though and had been programming for like 15 years.

It's really quite surprising how hard it is to get an IT person these days. I know a friend that heads up a gaming deveopment QA company and he can't find anyone either. (Maybe you should apply for that 3dee)

Could I get some contact details or a website of your friend's company to have a look at?

Turns out you have already sent your resume to friends company.

My friend is Draxy, think the company is Chrome Studios or something.

we are struggling to get IT peeps as well

no repsonses to ads in the paper

where are you graduates!??!!??!!?

i need an offsider/flunky

I'm in my last year of IT guys. Just send in your company details and I will short list the ones I like, have a phone interview and see if you guys are good enough to hire me.

we're not

we pay s***, have high turn over and the only redeeming feature is some awesome people work here

we do like perl though

Only had 1 person leave this company ever. And we just had the 9th birthday. So pretty good company if nobody wants to leave.

Yeh i just applied for the QA pos at Krome right then lol

I might apply for this pos as well just in case.

Seems even UQ is looking for IT people.

Friend who works there says they need a PHP developer.

Crazy.

if anything, hopefully the supply and demand situation drives wages up to what they should be, not what is criminal as in most IT related jobs.

everyone bailed out of IT cause it's s*** :p

games dev is the only fun part of IT. pity the industry is hard to get into

everyone bailed out of IT cause it's s*** :p

I went through a phase about second year 1st sem where I couldn't stand IT and really wanted to get out of the course but I just kept at it due to pure laziness of changing and now I'm loving it more than ever.

games dev is the only fun part of IT

I don't think IT means what you think it means ...

after i started tafe i thought i wanted to go into structural engineering rather than civil (like most people), since i got a job doing civil works (took anything i could get) i'm enjoying it aswell and thats the path i'll probably head down in my future studies

^5

i still like IT

but i have low standards for work requirements

games dev is the only fun part of IT

I don't think IT means what you think it means ...

Yeh I know. I'm not even sure if games development falls into IT. Can anyone clear this up??

hey, I'm interested.

haven't done any asp.net work, but i have done a little asp, and a bit more .net
plus i have been programming casually since grade 8.

is the position still open?

btw, 3dee, if i get the job, you can have my old one. QA tester for Creative Assembly, (play video games for a living)

Still open and you sound like what we are after. Don't have to know ASP.NET but kinda need to know something similar and have been programming for a while so have good technique.

If you have not sent my boss an email, go for it.

hey guys i have no real programming experience and i sometimes write html pages with photos of my cat on it since i was 14. i have no formal education in programming and my documentation will be horrid and the only related experience i have is a labrat qa testing position HIRE ME

you forgot about the rent thing.

persay you fail.

Edit: i'll be able to send off my resume when i get home.

last edited by myWhiteWolf at 15:38:38 23/Apr/07

last edited by myWhiteWolf at 15:39:44 23/Apr/07

Sorry Persay, you are overqualified.

Just to follow up on the whole "what falls under the IT category" thing, I find it bizarre that the scope of "IT" changes depending on who you're talking to. In Australia, it seems that IT and Software Engineering are basically synonyms, as in my university those two are identical, except IT has a group "thesis" and soft-eng has a few more courses (four years instead of 3 [which is basically IT + honours = Soft-eng + compulsory honours]). The Aussie companies look for "IT/Software graduates".

However, speak about them overseas and IT graduates are the graphic designers and HTML creators. They can't code and think the software development life cycle is the time it takes their websites to load.

Just to follow up on the whole "what falls under the IT category" thing, I find it bizarre that the scope of "IT" changes depending on who you're talking to. In Australia, it seems that IT and Software Engineering are basically synonyms, as in my university those two are identical, except IT has a group "thesis" and soft-eng has a few more courses (four years instead of 3 [which is basically IT + honours = Soft-eng + compulsory honours]). The Aussie companies look for "IT/Software graduates".

Yeah I don't know about Info tech being synonymous with software engineering. I.T. (as in Information Technology) generally and blanketly described anything to do with technology. Then there are specialisations you must do within this field i.e. Com-Sci which makes you a code monkey or specialised in DB like information system. From your example, the students that graduated with IT with soft-eng they'll generally will be hire as code monkey and I mean _generally_.

It's pretty much like saying you're during a "med" degree but, you then need specialisation. But techically you're in a "medical field" as a G.P., just as you are in an "IT field" as a software developer.

/end thread hi-jack

last edited by Opec at 20:18:34 23/Apr/07

The one thing i do hate about the vagueness of what is IT, is when people expect you to be able to install any hardware, use every program every made and love to fix computers.

Just to clear a little thing up, I work at Creative Assembly. We make the Total War series of games. Medieval II: Total War was the last game that came out of our studio.

But Krome Studios is just down the road from us.

IT guys should have the following traits:

* They can install their own hardware
* They can navigate through a file system and network
* They can find cracks for software
* They can understand phonetic spelling of werds
* They can fix all their annoying relatives computers and friends of your parents who they promised you would have a look at their pos computer that has ads & porn popping up when their little son went on the internet and wont go away.
* You can tell the age of the person insulting you in multiplayer games
* You can gets the pr0n
* You can see the value in eating pizza and crap through your teenage years and later on realise you need to goto the gym and eat healthy
* You can understand why forwarding a joke email (thats always old) on to all your colleges is going to piss off at least one person
* You can explain the difference between a Geek and a Nerd.
* You can see the merits of living with your parents for alot longer than the rest of society.



last edited by Draxy at 13:05:59 24/Apr/07

^ omg I am the it ninja (except for the going to a gym part)

Draxy, got any IT jobs going at CA?

hehe. I think as long as you have skills its pretty easy to get a job in the Games Industry in Brisbane; pretty much all my friends are at studios, Krome, CA and about 5 or 6 from my uni course now work at Halfbrick. I might get into the industry later this year...

^ omg I am the it ninja (except for the going to a gym part)

w0rd. What about:
* You are fluent in l33tsp34k

hey that would mean i am an IT pro aswell, except for the last dot point i disagree

Everyone here is probably an I.T Professional™.

Na ah!

IT is a very broad heading just look at hte majors QUT now offers under their IT degree. When i finished they had 14 very differnt majors ranging from Software development (SE) to IT management and business analysis over to technical support majors.

IT does cover game development in terms of programming the game itself. Writing code whether it is a game or a business package is still software development. If you are developing models ofr games or art for agmes it is still covered under the heading of IT in the multimedia stream.

I think any job where you need to know the workings of software or systems can come under the banner of IT. Whether your support it or develop it. Even business analysis for future software packages falls under IT.

Still a very broad subject that has alot more meanings than i have mentioned.