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

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Post by lsiebert »

Buetol wrote: post #38
xando wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually a lot of people ask me about different angles for the data. For this reason I'm trying to build a stats / trends page. So feedback / requirements welcome.

I think it would be better to just let people download the raw data (like the database dump). Then people can do their analysis on top (like, I could produce the stats I just told you about)

Actually what would be cool would be to release the data, and hold a contest related to it. Maybe one award track for interesting analysis, one for presentation of data. You could probably get some companies to sponsor it, as it's cheap advertising that people will be interested in viewing. Plus someone might be able to write up a paper on it for journal publication.

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

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Post by runT1ME »

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…

Agree, I'm a remote Scala engineer.

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

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Post by Calist0 »

jsingleton wrote: post #43
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…

To add to this, here are some charts that I put together for https://cleanwebjobs.com . Tech skills desired by employers: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767684601615704064 Tech skills available in the marketplace: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767683809714245632 Python and JavaScript are the biggest players along with UX/UI design (not really development). Seems to match the data above. Unfortunate…

5% of people have design skills, yet 17% of employers seek designers. Interesting.. Maybe I should turn to design, instead of front-end development.

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

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Post by figpope »

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…

I totally agree. I'm working right now as a remote Scala engineer, and while I was job hunting, I saw more remote positions for Scala/Spark than any other stack. (At least within the world of data engineering)

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

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Post by gregjor »

FT_intern wrote: post #78
gregjor wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Rewriting is rarely a good business decision. Companies have already invested time and money and changed their internal processes. I maintain and fix what they have. If they decide to replace it I am usually the first developer they offer the job to.

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

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Post by gregjor »

csdreamer7 wrote: post #31
gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

What kind of business problems do you solve or see other remote programmers solving? edit: nevermind, you answered, legacy systems, according to your blog PHP/MySQL work

I focus on web applications and most of those are PHP and MySQL. I have worked on other kinds of code in the last ten years though. Ruby, Python, C#, Oracle, C++.

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

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Post by gregjor »

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…

Not really representative. JavaScript is used in almost every web app (like HTML) but pure JS (i.e Node) jobs are rare compared to PHP, which isn't even on the second list. Likewise with SQL: every web app uses a database.

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

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Post by nemoniac »

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…

I guess you mean "scraping", not "scrapping"

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

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Post by inputcoffee »

Buetol wrote: post #35
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…

It would be useful to compare the proportions difference between non-remote and remote instead of the absolute popularity. Example: Since SQL dominates most job offers already, it's gonna dominate also remote jobs offers. What you want is to look at technologies that are more predominant in remote than non-remote.

This is the first question that came to me.

Although, if people want to be hired for remote work then the absolute percent matters more, but if there is some reason to believe that remote work is different, this would illuminate that difference.

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