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Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

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In 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.

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Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Apparently,the experience is unusable or terrible in Safari for iOS and Chrome for Android also, but I too came here to complain about it being completely unusable on Firefox Mobile. Hello, fellow Firefox Mobile user!

Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

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One of the things I find missing from this list of soft skills. These lists are all concentrated in the technical skills, but the professional value gets realized through the soft skills.

But few people ask for soft skills, and no one tests for them beyond noting it if you do something wrong.

"Must be an excellent communicator" - unless they notice you have a hard time talking to them in the interviewer they don't check for it. They don't ask you to write an email for something, or create a presentation, or explain some difficult technical concept to a non-technical person, etc.

Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

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Actually in terms of finding if job site is useful for me that listing is nice. Quick scroll and I see there are no technologies that I use. No .NET, C#, Entity framework.

No SQL Server, or any of the Azure PaaS - service busses, event hubs, stream analytics, Data Lake, etc.

Fairly standard/boring "we're making a monolithic app in a dynamic language" stuff.

Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

#38

One of the things I find missing from this list of soft skills. These lists are all concentrated in the technical skills, but the professional value gets realized through the soft skills.

But few people ask for soft skills, and no one tests for them beyond noting it if you do something wrong. "Must be an excellent communicator" - unless they notice you have a hard time talking to them in the interviewer they don't check for it. They don't ask you to write an email for something, or create a presentation, or explain some difficult technical concept to a non-technical person, etc.

true... it is hard to test or measure soft skills, but the project result depends on them almost the same as technical skills.

Btw, those are communication skills. There are many others that are also important

Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

#39

One of the things I find missing from this list of soft skills. These lists are all concentrated in the technical skills, but the professional value gets realized through the soft skills.

But few people ask for soft skills, and no one tests for them beyond noting it if you do something wrong. "Must be an excellent communicator" - unless they notice you have a hard time talking to them in the interviewer they don't check for it. They don't ask you to write an email for something, or create a presentation, or explain some difficult technical concept to a non-technical person, etc.

true... it is hard to test or measure soft skills, but the project result depends on them almost the same as technical skills.

Btw, those are communication skills. There are many others that are also important

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