Archive for the ‘employment’ Category.
September 12, 2013, 8:20 pm
If you haven’t seen Gabr’s latest post about Delphi language features, it’s worth looking at. I don’t agree with everything he posted, but he’s got some good points.
But he’s also got some annoying problems in the comments department. Some obnoxious troll is spamming up almost half of the (extremely large) set of comments under the post with a bunch of preaching about how Python is soooo much better than Delphi because it’s less verbose. His thesis seems to be that since you can write equivalent functionality with (as he claims) one-tenth the lines of code, that Python is ten times more productive than Delphi. Continue reading ‘Delphi and Productivity’ »
January 12, 2012, 9:13 am
Just thought I’d throw this one out there. My employer, WideOrbit, is currently hiring. We’ve got multiple development positions open for both Delphi and C#/Silverlight skillsets. (SQL experience, especially with MS SQL Server, really helps too.) At WideOrbit we build industry-leading software for managing broadcast media. If you live in the USA, there’s a pretty good chance your favorite station is running on WideOrbit software, and we built it in Delphi. (Mostly.)
Our development office is in Lynnwood, Washington, (about half an hour from Seattle,) and on-site work is preferred, though some exceptions do (infrequently) get made on a case-by-case basis. It’s a good location, right across the street from a major mall (plenty of places to go for lunch!), with good pay and working conditions. The office has a friendly, engineer-centric culture, and it really helps that the manager is a former coder and the boss still is one. No pointy hair here!
Only those who know what they’re doing need apply. The developers take an active part in the interview process, and we’ve got really high standards. We understand that the only way to develop good software is with good developers, and we try hard to make sure that that’s all we get. But if you’re good and you can demonstrate that you know what you’re doing, you’re likely to get an offer.
If anyone’s interested, send me a resume at mwheeler@wideorbit.com and I’ll see about getting you an interview.