russian software developing industry and software exports

Chapter 6.
Human Resources and the Labor Market Situation
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
Share of companies which don't have shortage
of personnel by companies' location
60%
42%
47%
33%
Student
internships
Employment
of graduates
Major forms of cooperation between
companies and universities
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
41.5%
34%
73%
82%
10%
0%
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Novosibirsk
Others
Training courses
for personnel
23.6
48%
external markets. Apparently, this is due to higher
requirements for their professional qualifications.
University graduates are most willingly offered
jobs in cities where companies feel the lack of staff
more. In 2008, the lowest employment rate of recent
graduates was in Moscow and Novosibirsk. The results
of the previous, pre-crisis survey show that the share
of graduates in different cities was almost equal.
The rating of Russian universities was made based
on answers related to university graduates in the
highest demand among regional IT companies. It was
suggested respondents name an unlimited number of
universities. Companies that have their representative
offices and branches in other cities listed universities
from all cities where their developers are based.
The notion of the «region» was interpreted
differently by respondents. Therefore, the rating gives
only a general idea about universities preparing the
biggest number of necessary IT specialists; moreover,
the university ranking itself is quite relative.
The frequency of records was influenced by the
number of companies representing this or that city.
At the same time the size of the companies surveyed
was altogether neglected, which resulted in less high
ratings for Moscow universities than expected.
St. Petersburg universities are the most widely
represented in the rating (both by the number of
universities included and the frequency of records).
However, many Moscow companies (almost half)
named universities located in other cities, which reflects
the fact that Moscow has the highest share of nonresident
specialists in companies’ staff than other cities.
The respondents named over 60 Russian
universities in total. State universities and state
technical universities were the most frequently
mentioned with this regularity being true across
different cities.
Additional information about the quality of
preparation of software developers can be derived
from another university rating based on the results
of team participation in the world programming
championship among students (ACM International
Collegiate Programming Contest).
Not all of the 10 Russian universities that since
1999 have become prize winners in this prestigious
Other forms
Do not
cooperate
1%
42%
Poll 2008
Poll 2009
Major forms of cooperation between companies
and universities by companies' turnover
Student
internships
Employment
of graduates
Training courses
for personnel
Other forms
Do not
cooperate
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0%
16%
14%
0%
0%
8%
0%
25%
33%
29%
31%
39%
up to 0.5 MUSD
46%
46%
from 4 MUSD to 20 MUSD
from 0.5 MUSD to 4 MUSD
over 20 MUSD
tournament were included in 25 best universities by
the index of the highest demand for their graduates
among IT companies, which means these ratings are
conventional. Nevertheless, all universities mentioned
48%
48%
62%
71%
86%
100%
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