Ask HN: What are some job sectors which are crying out for tech talent in 2021?

#1

Post by thebrowncat » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

For someone with programming/maths/statistics skills.

Is ML/data science still hot? Cyber-security? Or something really obscure?

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Post by the_only_law » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

If I had to guess too heavy ones that are incredibly difficult for outsiders to break into.

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#3

Post by MattGaiser » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 8:55 PM UTC

Ones interested in senior level people.

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#4

Post by larrykubin » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

I see a huge amount of capital going into the crypto space. I would say learning Solidity would pay off big right now.

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#5

Post by pawelduda » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:15 PM UTC

larrykubin wrote: post #4

I see a huge amount of capital going into the crypto space. I would say learning Solidity would pay off big right now.

Being able to read solidity alone lowers your barrier to entire emerging ecosystems.

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#6

Post by _Wintermute » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:26 PM UTC

Bioinformatics/computational-biology. Lots of smart people with bio and maths skills, but a severe shortage of software engineering skills.

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#7

Post by f0e4c2f7 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:29 PM UTC

Cloud / Devops work pays extremely well in the US and not very many people seem to enjoy it.

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Post by haxiomic » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

_Wintermute wrote: post #6

Bioinformatics/computational-biology. Lots of smart people with bio and maths skills, but a severe shortage of software engineering skills.

Second this, I worked on projects where "big data" meant 700MB

Lots of valuable work to be done, even in just taking standard bioinformatics algorithms parallelizing them for GPUs

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Post by chudi » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:48 PM UTC

f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #7

Cloud / Devops work pays extremely well in the US and not very many people seem to enjoy it.

do you know any place that is searching for remote people? Where I live everyone is wanting to hire but there isn't any more money around here and everyone is just jaded or working remote.

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#10

Post by jason2323 » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

_Wintermute wrote: post #6

Bioinformatics/computational-biology. Lots of smart people with bio and maths skills, but a severe shortage of software engineering skills.

Sadly these jobs dont pay well enough. Software engineers in this space tend to be paid as much as biologists