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Ken Garlington wrote:
> 
> I've certainly heard of them... see, for example:
> 
> http://www.lmco.com ("Careers" section)
> http://www.visitastronics.com/index1.html
> 
> Every program I know about has the same complaint... they can't hire
> programmers (including Ada programmers) fast enough...
> 
> "Simon Brady" <see@below.for.email.address> wrote in message
> news:396F8ACC.2B93DBEE@below.for.email.address...
> > I've only just noticed this thread, but the subject line raises an
> > interesting (and, I confess, personally relevant) question: when was the
> > last time anyone on this group heard of an opening for *entry-level* Ada
> > programmers? [...]

Well Ken, I hereby publically eat my words - the LM careers page appears
to be down, but BAe A/c Controls do indeed list an opening for
entry-level software engineers, with Ada being one of the preferred
languages to have been exposed to. It's rather lonely among the "3-5
years experience" positions, but it is there.

Of course they're hardly going to jump through the H1B hoops for an
entry-level position, but let's not even get started on that topic :-)

Simon Brady                                            sjbrady
Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept.               at
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand            acm dot org