It looks like I'm working with statistically 'wrong' stack for a wannabe remote dev
I get the same feeling. What's yours?
Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#72I 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…
Hey, check your trends page, might be a bug? https://remoteok.io/trends
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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#73I’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.
Thanks. Check this blog post that I wrote
https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread...
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's not going to set you apart from the legions of JS devs they can hire locally who also have samples of their previous work and maintain an active github account.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#75I 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…
@dang could you replace the top list with these? I made a tiny error:
Top stacks:
Javascript 2,005 jobs (10%)
Ruby 1,759 jobs (9%)
Node Js 953 jobs (5%)
Sys Admin 789 jobs (4%)
PHP 779 jobs (4%)
iOS 708 jobs (4%)
Meteor JS 648 jobs (3%)
Android 569 jobs (3%)
Python 552 jobs (3%)
HTML 549 jobs (3%)
Java 525 jobs (3%)
CSS 513 jobs (3%)
Excel 381 jobs (2%)
C++ 374 jobs (2%)
Angular JS 372 jobs (2%)
Linux 313 jobs (2%)
SQL 268 jobs (1%)
C 268 jobs (1%)
Rails 266 jobs (1%)
Scala 242 jobs (1%)
Wordpress 226 jobs (1%)
Jquery 212 jobs (1%)
MongoDB 136 jobs (1%)
React 136 jobs (1%)
.NET 119 jobs (1%)
Golang 119 jobs (1%)
Drupal 115 jobs (1%)
Elasticsearch 107 jobs (1%)
Photoshop 100 jobs (1%)
Dev 8,920 jobs (46%)
Senior 2,619 jobs (13%)
Exec 2,045 jobs (10%)
Ruby 1,759 jobs (9%)
Marketing 1,469 jobs (8%)
Full Stack 1,293 jobs (7%)
Mobile 1,036 jobs (5%)
User Interface 881 jobs (5%)
Sys Admin 789 jobs (4%)
Backend 722 jobs (4%)
Devops 674 jobs (3%)
Admin 641 jobs (3%)
Python 552 jobs (3%)
Full Time 546 jobs (3%)
CSS 513 jobs (3%)
Medical 437 jobs (2%)
Product Manager 426 jobs (2%)
C++ 374 jobs (2%)
Cloud 370 jobs (2%)
Ops 346 jobs (2%)Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#76Been seeing a number of JS / Angular related stuff as of late.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#77From 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…
I thought so too once.
But the mainstream tech is just used by such a vast amount of companies, that even they haven't enough devs.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough - this is all about the practicality of starting remoting. I agree with your point of solving business problems - that is obvious and I am a quite a generalist (with certain preferences) when it comes to tech. I am just trying to be realistic here - I don't find it easy to find a job on site and my guess is finding a remote one is way more difficult with all the devs aroun…
Low-end competition on places like UpWork is mostly piecework, doing small and very specific jobs at sometimes extremely low rates. I don't compete in that market and I don't advise it. If you want to freelance remotely I advise lining up clients before you start traveling or living abroad, because it's harder to do that remotely. Unless you like churning your customers or doing piecework, you need to aim for long-te…
do you end up rewriting the entire legacy applications? How do you balance doing a good job with time efficiency?
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show samples of your previous work. Maintain an active Github account.
That's not going to set you apart from the legions of JS devs they can hire locally who also have samples of their previous work and maintain an active github account.
The actual amount of local devs that have active GitHub accounts and work samples and are smart is actually pretty tiny. Maybe not in the Bay Area, but even in NYC I haven't come across many.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show samples of your previous work. Maintain an active Github account.
That's not going to set you apart from the legions of JS devs they can hire locally who also have samples of their previous work and maintain an active github account.
Agreed. I'm out of ideas here as to how you would stand out among the crowd. I think it just comes down to the complexity and budget of the project. You hire according to that. With so much IT projects around the world, if you make some effort you surely get some work.