Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

Post by mullsork » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 1:52 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #222

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I won't bite on the "talent" part as that's obviously hard as hell to spot. Someone can seem entirely incompetent yet sitting on talent that hasn't been nurtured yet. What I do see and hear about are people that simply do not know how to program. FizzBuzz generally cuts out 50% or something out of the pool right? So that's 200 of those 400 resumes out the window already. If you can't pass FizzBuzz then I think it's s…

Old thread, but I'd like to point out that I don't think filtering out people who can't do FizzBuzz is "picky". What I'm calling picky is the extremely narrowly defined sets of skills people in this thread are looking for. There is a huge gulf between "competent programmer" and "expert in language A, platform B, and framework C". Most companies would be perfectly fine with the former (of which there is no shortage) a…

So I was recently hunting for a new job after having worked with React & Mobx for the past two years. The company I'll start with is using Redux, with which I have zero experience, and I got a lot of offers/interest from Angular/Ember shops as well.

I think it's fair to want someone who's experienced or at least has a fair bit of knowledge in either Angular/Ember/React if you're looking for a web dev. The companies I talked to were at least reasonable enough to know that general knowledge transcends whatever's the current hot framework.

Post by hobonumber1 » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 7:09 PM UTC

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I work at SoundHound as a Senior Software Engineer, and take part in interviewing/hiring. Full-stack JavaScript engineers are still in very short supply. Lots of people claim to know JavaScript but many fall short when working across the stack. When I say full-stack, I mean being responsible for building and managing everything the front-end webserver (NodeJS), Database (Postgres/MySQL), and front-end (usually ReactJ…

That's because someone who can build you a server from barebones hardware to a running system in the cloud, waiting to accept and serve data won't pick a framework to write the application; they are unlikely to even use JavaScript for the backend part, because they learned their lessons. What you have are conflicting requirements. You have to work on those first, or hire someone with 20-30 years of experience, pay th…

I said front-end webserver, not backend server. Not sure what lessons you are referring to. Lots of people use Node in production for large-scale applications. You don't need 20-30 years of experience either.

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