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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by selllikesybok »

xando wrote: post #52
selllikesybok wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unrelated to the OP, but what are you using to resolve place names to geography? Seems to be mostly on target, but you get weird stuff like Camden Town (UK) -> Camden, New Jersey, US and it's common enough to notice.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/classifier.shtml I'm not too happy about it. But, I planning to replace it with simple knuth morris pratt text search against the list of all significant locations. This 100x slower but results are rarely bad.

Cool, thanks for taking the time to answer.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by santiagobasulto »

xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

This is really cool. Do you have a breakdown by year? Comparing Angular to React since 2011 doesn't seem really fair.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by vonmoltke »

anc84 wrote: post #53
throw31337 wrote: post #7

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No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…

What makes you think that "remote" jobs have different stacks though? That's my main point.

In my totally unscientific survey of remote-friendly jobs over the past few years the majority appear to be webdev of some flavor, followed by devops of some flavor. There's an occasional Java, Go, or Rust position thrown in there as well.

Now, I don't see any variation in the stacks for webdev or devops jobs with respect to whether the job is remote or not. The significant bias in specializations available remote, though, significantly biases the overall stacks available.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by dev_iq »

lj3 wrote: post #57
sotojuan wrote: post #51

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By being great and preferably experienced. Finding a solid JavaScript developer who's also a great programmer in general is hard.

And how do you expect a potential employer to identify such people? It's not an easy or trivial thing to determine who is a good dev and who is a bad dev.

Show samples of your previous work. Maintain an active Github account.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by ChemicalWarfare »

Well so let's say you're an "enterprise developer" with Java/Scala for the backend and some JS skills. From the looks of it you also into the big data stuff... Are you really willing to switch to (for example) PHP or Ruby on Rails just to be able to work remote?

I'd say start looking for a remote job which requires your skill set. If you start seeing a need for some new tech in your "portfolio" based on what you're seeing out there - won't hurt to take a look at it, maybe do a "weekend POC" type project push it to github and add that tech to your resume :)

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by kernelbandwidth »

atemerev wrote: post #13

From my experience (working 100% remotely for some years), I'd say that the sweet point lies in relatively "exotic" stacks, like Scala, Erlang, maybe even Rust. It's not that there are more remote jobs in Scala than in Javascript. However, people who hire Scala developers seem to accept that when you need a top Scala team, you have to bring people from all over the world, i.e. they are fully committed to building a g…

We actually decided on remote early on as a way to expand our potential talent pool, when it became a key part of getting our first hire on-board. We've recently made the decision to start doing our major work in Rust after it had a strong showing building an important internal tool and prototyping a small service in it, and our mounting frustration with the current stack (plus some other issues that made it a good time to decide if we wanted to switch). A remote hiring policy has been key to confidence in that decision; we've yet to fully put that into practice with actual Rust hires, but I'd be much more wary with a talent pool restricted to just the local area (Austin, in this case).

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by Nowyouknow »

pieterhg wrote: post #37

I make Remote OK, which aggregates most job boards for remote jobs. I have data for the last 2 years of jobs. I quickly made this page for you to see what stacks/tags are most popular: https://remoteok.io/stats.php Top stacks: Ruby 1,759 jobs (9%) Node JS 953 jobs (5%) PHP 779 jobs (4%) Meteor JS 645 jobs (3%) Python 552 jobs (3%) Java 525 jobs (3%) C++ 374 jobs (2%) Linux 313 jobs (2%) C 268 jobs (1%) Rails 266 jobs…

This website is awesome! This'll be a stellar resource for me.
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