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==About Me==

I like cheesecake, wine, Randy Pausch, Cave Story, Jane McGonigal, late nights, Tchaikovsky's 1812.

hire me.

= Software Engineering Employers list =

Potential employers for work experience and graduate jobs.

= From 2008 =

These are employers who are actively seeking SE graduates or who are willing to take them.
Information I want to have:
*application closing date
*location
*type of work (clients, product type, languages, dev style)
*how many are they hiring?

==From Courses and Careers Day stands==
===Definitely want to employ Software Engineering Students===
*inro -Auckland, robots
*Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (June 27)
*Fisher and Paykel Appliances - in East Tamaki, Auckland
*Contact (16 May) - 3x ICT Graduates wanted for Wellington
*Talgentra - Auckland
*Honeywell (in Sydney) honeywell.com.au
*United Water (IT team in Australia does real development)
*Navico
*Vector (hiring one person for IT role)
*endance - Hamilton + Manukau, office moving to Auckland city. Wants SE grads for 3 roles: "cards, GUI, network specialist" also VHDL Designers
*IBM (Australia)

===Small chance of employing us===
*AWT - maybe, as they have to move data between various external tools.
*Meridian - I don'ty remember if they employ us or not. (3 June.)
*NZAS (6 June) New Zealand Aliminium Smelters - an automation role - PLCs, robotic equipment
*WaterCare services (20 May) - involves control systems and SCADA
Schlumberger (will train you as a field engineer, regardless of which Eng. degree you have), Transpower, Newmont, the Navy (gun technician stuff), probably not the airforce (you can be a Communication and Information Systems Officer but are they recruiting those at present?)

==From the Courses and Careers day booklet==

followed by Graduate closing date and internship closing date, if I know them.

===For Software Engineering===
*!GHD (employer presentation on Thurs 8th May)
*!Beca (June 6\Aug 1) (employer presentation on Friday 9th May)
*Fisher & Paykel Appliances (???)
*Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (June 27)
*!Honeywell
*Ministry of Economic Development
*New Zealand Navy
*NZ Police
*!Procter & Gamble (April 23)
*!Provoke Solutions
*!Retailworld Resourcing (Feb 1 ongoing)
*The Warehouse
*Westpac New Zealand

===For Computing\IT (excluding duplicates from above)===
*EDS New Zealand
*!Ernst & Young (March\March)
*!IBM
*Intergen
*!KPMG (April 3) grad + interns
*Lion Nathan New Zealand (June 4)
*Ministry of Economic Development
*!Ministry of Social Development (May 16 ongoing)
*!New Zealand customers service
*Palmerston North City Council
*!PricewaterhouseCoopers
*Statistics New Zealand
*TrustPower

= Detailed List =

==Contact Energy==
*3 ICT positions in Wellington
*The starting salary looked good to me (they actually put it on a slide and showed us)
*Apply soon\now

==Ernst & Young==
*Not a software company - they're a big business consultancy company or something.
*interns and graduates
*Apply soon\now\too late

==Inro==
*Auckland based, recent startup, robotics company
*Put robot drivers into vehicles
*Have 18 software developers and want 18 more
*C programming? Check for details.
*www.inro.co.nz
*applications close... (soon?)
*The work is so cutting-edge, they have PHD students working there who write papers about what they do.

==Talgentra==
*Didn't give me a scholarship
*but their HR people are very friendly

==Google==
*Sydney, Australia (or other countries)

==Intergen==
*Auckland (and Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin)
*Gave me a scholarship.
*Hiring when?

= From 2007 =

==University of Auckland==
*Summer work: You will be emailed a list of summer scholarship projects. You are only allowed to apply for one.
*Before you apply, talk to the supervisor! You may find out he or she has already promised the job to someone else...

==Kiwiplan==
*Software for cardboard packaging companies
*Office: Auckland (Tamaki?)
*tech: Eclipse, Java, Swing, Visual Basic 6, VB.net
*stuff: "fairly agile process", they like design skills and OO skills
*offers 6 scholarships + internships per year to UofA

==Intergen==
*Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
*Business solutions. Web sites, etc?
*Tech: Microsoft tools and languages
*Graduate program: See their website.
*offers a scholarship with an internship
*other internships: ?

==Orion Health==
*Auckland office
*tech: Java
*Internships: Involved with the ICT Academy programme, "so it is best to apply to them rather than directly to us."

==Mozilla==
*Auckland
*Want Interns And Full-Time Developers
*Low-level programming in C and C++
*open-source experience is desirable.
*Knowledge of machine code, graphics, multimedia, typography, Web standards, and all standard areas of computer science is all useful. Hobby experience counts.
*Send CVs to mozilla@ocallahan.org.

==Touchpoint==
*Make an interactive marketing platform for web promotions etc. Modular
*tech: Java, Oracle, unix, RSS, XML, Tomcat, redhat linux
*Summer internships available
*touchpointgroup.com

==Google (Australia)==
*Summer internships, apply by 20 August?
*Only for true heroes

==Microsoft==
*12 week internships in Washington (MS pays relocation fees)
*I think there are NO DEVELOPERS at Microsoft New Zealand - check this

==First Data (Peace Software)==
*Credit card processing, software as a service
*Office: Auckland
*tech: Eclipse, Java, SOA, J2EE, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate
*stuff: Agile methodology, XP, pair programming
*internships: maybe

==Sidhe==
*Video games company, 60+ staff.
*Office: Wellington
*Tech: C++, Microsoft Visual Studio.
*Skills wanted: engineering and architecture, specialty skills in AI, etc, and "common sense"
*Summer interns: not normally, but maybe. You would be working on tools, not games.
*Include a demo with your job application

==EDS==
*graduates only?

==Sandfield==
*graduates only?

==Other companies:==
*Defence Technology Agency, Auckland, vacancies at nzdf.mil.nz - probably graduates only.

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