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Where to find ISV-style C# experience

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I had an opportunity recently to chat briefly to Eric Hahn (of Netscape and Lookout fame) about his next interesting project… which btw, will be built in C# just like lookout. He mentioned that it was hard to find developers with world class ISV-style experience in C#. While there is a healthy market for enterprise developers in C# and VB the ISV developers are harder to find.

I assured Eric that you are out there… I know, because I have talked to you at the PDC, I have seen you on the blogs and in the community in general asking really hard, pointed questions. Do you think I am right? Any thoughts on where ISV likes Eric might find ISV-style developers with deep C#/CLR experience?

Oh, and, BTW – here is the plug for Eric’s openings just in case you are interested in them specifically

Founder-Level Opportunity for C# Gurus

Hi. I’m Eric Hahn, originator of Lookout (100% C#/.Net Outlook search engine, sold in '04 to Microsoft), former CTO of Netscape and accidentally successful industry veteran. We’ve started a way cool new company (disclaimer: I’m biased). Once again we're betting on C#/.Net (why haven’t more start-ups discovered how cool it is?).

We're looking for one or two killer C# architects/developers to join the founding team, ideally here in the Bay Area. This is a chance to put your C#/.Net skills to work on a hugely visible, well-funded, mainstream product. If you’re even slightly interested, please send your resume to jobs@element30.com.

BTW, definitely check out Brad’s book – it is awesome and has become required reading around here.

Update: I just noticed that Jack has a good post related to ISVs and managed code... https://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2006/04/13/576060.aspx

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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2006
    Please change 'rest' to 'remaining' in my previous comment. It should be:

    "As of the remaining of the .NET platform, it is almost perfect and just got better with the new release."
  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2006
    Per my experience, the opposite is also true -it's hard to find a job as an ISV developer.
  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2006
    Given the number of shrinkwrap products out there that use managed code (growing all the time), there must be a lot of ISV-focused devs out there. That said, I don't see their resumes cross my desk very often (maybe 1 ISV dev to every 50 "IT-shop" devs). The only reason I can guess: perhaps ISVs do a better job of keeping their devs happy (since they make the bread n' butter) when compared to a corporate IT shop where IT isn't necessarily what pays the bills. That's certainly the case with my employer (an ISV, of coz)- we've historically had very low developer turnover.
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    January 17, 2006
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    June 09, 2009
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