Hot job in Silicon Valley: Flash developer

Posted by Serge Jespers on Aug 26, 2010 in Industry | 1 comment

The best way to measure the impact and relevance of a technology is probably to look at job openings. According to the Wall Street Journal the demand for Flash developers in Silicon Valley has suddenly surged:

With the advent of online social gaming start-ups such as Zynga Game Network Inc. and others—many of which make online games that involve Flash technology—demand for Flash engineers has suddenly surged.

Mochi Media (one of the largest online gaming networks) says it is hard to find good Flash engineers.

To get around the lack of Flash engineers, Mr. Hsu says Mochi Media tries to hire engineers who know programming languages such as Java and then train them to use Flash. “It’s a six-month time investment, but most can pick up Flash very quickly,” he says.

Be sure to read the rest of the article on the WSJ site. Oh… and ehr… Flash on!