Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by GordyMD » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

"The average salary for a Front End Developer / Engineer with PHP skills is £25,246 per year. Most people move on to other jobs if they have more than 20 years' experience in this field."

The 2nd sentence is golden. How many people can claim to have programmed as a front-ender or PHP programmer (which launched 20 years ago) and then moved on to something else? And also suggest they were paid, at a maximum, £35k?! According to this fine piece of information, 'most people'.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by lon_c » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

I can confirm UK developer salaries are MUCH lower than Californian salaries - even Google pays their employees significantly less in the UK than the US for similar roles.

Contracting in the UK and London especially is much more lucrative.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by navan » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:20 PM UTC

You beat me to it. I was working on this and downloaded all the items using firebase API. Great job. How did you parse the location? I thought that would be the hardest part.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by python490 » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:30 PM UTC

Now for a site to help college grads to see who is hiring.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by ionised » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:37 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

Yes. Wage for developers in the UK is piss poor for the most part.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:39 PM UTC

As Portuguese I wonder why Novoda was placed on the country if they are listed as LONDON/LIVERPOOL/BERLIN company.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by Yhippa » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

cphuntington97 wrote: post #44

c0nfused wrote: post #42

So, apparently there are a good number of tech jobs in Java Virginia, USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java,_Virginia I suspect those might not actually be there.

the small town of Alabama, NY also representing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812941 "Decatur, AL / NYC"

With the sheer volume of posts in WiH it's serious work to Ctrl+F your way through each post and find something based on your criteria. Wish there was a way to normalize that data somehow.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by mcguire » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:43 PM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #10

The job-description text on the right hand side isn't wrapping for me, meaning I can't read most of it unless I double click to select all and then copy/paste it into a text editor. I'm using Firefox 39 on Debian. EDIT: If I change your "white-space: pre" to "pre-wrap" or "pre-line" that fixes it.

Same, with Firefox 38 on a recent Ubuntu. The same fix works.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Pretty neat! Along with the better location accuracy / being able to modify them that people are suggesting it would be nice to improve the combination circles so that they're over their respective areas. For instance if I zoom in at just the right distance over Washington D.C. it'll show a circle above the city with a number in it and you can clearly see Baltimore as well but Baltimore has no circles until you zoom one more level at which point it then separates the circles.

Example: http://imgur.com/a/A3Xtq

Also being able to double click on the map to zoom would be nice!

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by delecti » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

JDiculous wrote: post #21

This is awesome. Seriously. I never go through the regular "Who is Hiring?" thread because I don't have time to comb through a humongous list of unfiltered text posts, 90% of which aren't relevant to me. There have been other attempts to format the thing, but this is the best I've seen so far. One minor bug: I'm seeing a listing titled "---" that starts with "I am a Junior Front End Developer. I eventually want to go…

It's easy enough to just Ctrl+f for your location name, my biggest complaint is all the entries that don't say what their company does.

It's all well and good that you're in my city and I'm familiar with the tools you use, but if you can't be arsed to include a single sentence description of why your company exists, I'm much less likely to care. Bonus points if your description isn't buzzword laden nonsense.