Really small sample size, with a lot of potential biases. I wouldn't base any decisions on this data.
Rankings of required skills in software development job listings
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#22I'm supposed to respect and acknowledge future tech trends from someone that couldn't be bothered to have a mobile friendly site in the year 2017?
For what it's worth, the site aside from the trends page is mobile friendly. The trends pages are something I thought would be cool to throw together with the data I have on the topic and admittedly haven't spent enough time trying to make sure it works everywhere. edit: should be fixed now
On Firefox mobile it's not about getting everything to work, just basics because the page is quite useless on that browser.
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#23I'm surprised to see no mention of SQL Server as a required skill. Surely, there must be at least one job posting that requires knowledge of some sort of an MS/.net stack?
It looks like it's a survey of startup-type organisations listed on that particular site. All across the globe there are plenty of SQL Server and .NET-related roles, but many are corporate jobs and not posted to the same places.
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#24In general I would suggest not putting too much emphasis on these sorts of lists, especially once you're an experienced programmer. Yes, over time new technologies become more useful, but there's a whole bunch of core skills that will last you far longer than web-framework of the week: 1. General problem solving skills. A lead developer needs a whole bunch of skills that aren't listed anywhere on that list. 2. More s…
While I agree with you, just look at jobs ads. They match the list a lot more than your description of a problem solver.
Unless it's some revolutionary tech, like Haskell to a C programmer, the problem-solving skills and good knowledge of general principles would let you study it to a reasonable level in a reasonably short time.
That is, if you understand the ideas behind Smalltalk well enough, you will have no trouble picking up Ruby, Python, or even PHP; swap the initial language to taste.
If you are a beginner and the amount of ideas you know is limited by the two languages and a framework you picked up so far, then yes, matching a checklist of an employer is more about the specific tech. The farther from that, the less.
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#25I'm honestly surprised to see so many rails jobs on there
I am not surprised. If you need number crunching app why not create a microservice and feed it to your rails ?
Rails is great!
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#26I'm surprised hadoop is at the top for distributed processing. I don't imagine many businesses really actually want hadoop. Anybody here using it as part of their stack and can justify its use?
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#27In general I would suggest not putting too much emphasis on these sorts of lists, especially once you're an experienced programmer. Yes, over time new technologies become more useful, but there's a whole bunch of core skills that will last you far longer than web-framework of the week: 1. General problem solving skills. A lead developer needs a whole bunch of skills that aren't listed anywhere on that list. 2. More s…
While I agree with you, just look at jobs ads. They match the list a lot more than your description of a problem solver.
They do, yes, but that's what companies think they want; it's not what they actually need. And if you present yourself the right way you can get past that and get hired anyway.
(Blog post I linked to talks about that in more detail, and I talk a bit more marketing vs. skills here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/19/specialist-vs-genera...)
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#28Flask is above Django? Not in any of the job listings I have seen.
What's weird is that if you click on it, Django has more results than Flask.
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#29I'm honestly surprised to see so many rails jobs on there
The sample size is tiny!
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I agree with you, just look at jobs ads. They match the list a lot more than your description of a problem solver.
Unless it's some revolutionary tech, like Haskell to a C programmer, the problem-solving skills and good knowledge of general principles would let you study it to a reasonable level in a reasonably short time. That is, if you understand the ideas behind Smalltalk well enough, you will have no trouble picking up Ruby, Python, or even PHP; swap the initial language to taste. If you are a beginner and the amount of idea…
Exactly. As a newly minted programmer you're stuck with those lists, or ideally a company that's intelligent enough to be willing to invest in training (sadly too few of those).
Once you're experienced you can start treating those lists as nice-to-haves, if you have the right core skills and present yourself the right way.