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Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by distracteddev90 »

itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

There is no reason to feel alone, perhaps rare, but not alone. There are others that share your feelings (including myself).

These people are often labelled as the "pragmatic". They also lean towards having a more general scope of knowledge and thus often lack a "speciality".

There are also those that simply wish to solve the problem in the "best" way possible, and will use whichever stack gets them closer to that ideal solution.

disclaimer: purely based on my experience/opinion/perspective.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by itsitsandwhich »

jessemillar wrote: post #20
itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

You're definitely not alone in thinking that way. I'm similar as long as I don't have to work with something terribly archaic.

> as long as I don't have to work with something terribly archaic

Totally! I definitely wouldn't want to work in something like, say, Pascal, but my all time favorite job was at a startup using Java, of all languages.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by DenisM »

itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

People who are solving problems day to day are usually quite busy with that, hence why they can't be seen as readily. :)

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by hhandoko »

itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

I think it has merit for devs looking to get involved in a particular tech (whatever their reasons may be).

In the past I work almost exclusively within the .NET ecosystem (only some small projects in Java, Python, etc.). When I took up learning Scala, I decided that I want to immerse myself in full-time Scala development and started to look for Scala-related roles.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by pmontra »

Well done with room for improvement. Please add a remote/onsite switch. Other useful switches would be full time/part time and employee /freelancer. I'd go for remote, part time, freelancer so I won't use a service that makes me skim through hundreds of job listings before finding the one I want to see.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by BjoernKW »

itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

I can absolutely understand and I feel the same way. I can't understand this infatuation with stacks. They're just a tool for solving a problem. If another tool is better for solving a particular problem then you should use that. It's nothing to be obsessed with.

If you present yourself as just a bunch of TLAs you're effectively selling yourself short. Put bluntly, if you do that you're presenting yourself as a code monkey who turns other people's ideas and solutions into that nasty computer code the people who do the "real thinking" can't be bothered to deal with.

Besides, your favourite stack today might fall out of favour tomorrow. If you invested a disproportionate amount of time into learning all the intricacies of that particular stack you might have wasted a lot of time.

Being able to analyze and solve problems regardless of the toolset is a skill that likely will never fall out of favour.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by piaste »

Searching for F# seems to return all .NET-using companies, even if they're explicitly listing only C# or only VB.NET in their page.

Perhaps you could add a "search related tools" flag? I can imagine an experienced Java developer being OK with Kotlin and Scala jobs, but maybe a Scala fan wants to look specifically for Scala postings and avoid the majority of general JVM positions.

But in any case, sort by match % by default! I had to scroll quite a bit down to find the first actually-F# result, even though it was (correctly) matched as a 100% match and all the ones above were at 0%.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by collyw »

itsitsandwhich wrote: post #19

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

Try working with VB6, Salesforce, and less so Java, PHP, and you might have a different opinion.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Post by yonasb »

piaste wrote: post #28

Searching for F# seems to return all .NET-using companies, even if they're explicitly listing only C# or only VB.NET in their page. Perhaps you could add a "search related tools" flag? I can imagine an experienced Java developer being OK with Kotlin and Scala jobs, but maybe a Scala fan wants to look specifically for Scala postings and avoid the majority of general JVM positions. But in any case, sort by match % by d…

Good idea! Related searches makes a lot of sense. We'll look into that. And sorting by % should already be happening, but it's clearly not. We'll fix it.
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