SlimSoft Solutions CR (SlimSoft's Costa Rican branch) will be hiring mainly recent graduates with a bachelor's degree or technical diploma. As part of the CINDE tour we visited two post secondary institutions TEC (Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica) and CENFOTEC and were very impressed with the quality of the IT programs offered by both.
TEC offers a bachelor in Computer Engineering that is half way between a Computer Science degree and a Technical diploma and graduates about 60 students twice a year. The program has a strong math and computer programming background combined with a good balance of analysis and design, project management and humanities. Upon completion of the program the students are expected to have developed the following skills:
- Requirement Analysis
- Solution Design
- Solution Development
- Quality Control
- Solution Development Management
- Solution Implementation
- Technical Support and Training
The last course before graduation is a 16 week internship program that is aimed to prepare the student for the real world. The internship program can be a stand alone project, several smaller projects or it can be part of a bigger project but it must have a well defined deliverable and must be completed in the required time. Companies that are interested send their project proposals to TEC two month before the term starts, a faculty member approves the project and then the students select the project of interest. The project is done on company premises and will be supervised by both a faculty member and a company staff member.
CENFOTEC has two programs: a two year full time Software Developer Technical Diploma and a continuing education Software Engineering Specialist Technical Diploma. The students graduating as Software Developers have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming, databases, data structures, analysis and design concepts and software engineering principals. Team work and real life problem solving are an essential part of their education. Like TEC, CENFOTEC also has an internship program to provide the students with some industry experience before they graduate. The continuing education program in Software Engineering is for professionals already out in the work force that needs to upgrade their IT skills. This is a part-time program held in the evenings. The skill development is similar to the technical diploma.
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