User:Mgat014

About Me

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

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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.