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DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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Re: DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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Post by deminature »

DubiousPusher wrote: post #100
deminature wrote: post #85

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Market St in SF is what most Australians see when attending conferences. The homelessness, human waste, open drug use, and visibly serious mental illness is pretty confronting for anyone not used to it, and that's at daytime - it gets significantly scarier at night if you make the mistake of walking back to your hotel. I've never understood why all the hotels international guests stay in are in by far the worst neigh…

It's grodey and depressing but hardly a "war zone".

Last time I was there, someone was openly defecating in front of city hall, next to multiple people shooting heroin. I had to step over someone who had collapsed apparently from drug use, in front of a restaurant entrance, and nobody seemed to care. It's about as close to the third world as exists in the west. I recognize there's extremely nice parts of SF, but most out of state/international guests stay around Tenderloin/SOMA and would never know that.

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Post by deviation »

nsonha wrote: post #44

I doubt these tests means anything, Autralian companies use standard tests way less than US companies, there is no reason for Australian devs to just be good at these spontaneoysly.

Born and bred Australian here. In my ~10 year career I've never worked with nor worked for anyone who didn't advocate for (close to) complete code coverage.

Can I ask where you've learned this?

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Post by shruubi »

As a fellow Australian I have to agree with some of my fellow countrymen when they say that compared to the US, our tech industry is much more conservative and focused on banking, insurance and real-estate.

From my perspective, we have a number of great developers, its just that most of us (myself included), don't work in places where our tech and work is announced almost like an advertisement. Something that, at least for me, is a weird thing to watch happen so often from US tech companies.

I think a big contributing factor to such a conservative tech industry comes from a general lack of investment in start-up businesses either due to a lack of interest from the government, or from risk-adverse investors who would rather put their money into safe bets like real-estate.

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Post by Bootvis »

harry8 wrote: post #14

I am wildly suspicious of this data. How could it possibly be audited? The presenter of the data has obvious ulterior motives to make something up where the data is inadequate or flat out lie to support their business. The hook got them in here (that's not a dev test, that's a dev test), so well played. But shouldn't we just dismiss all of this as yet more BS until they can show otherwise. It's far, far too clean.

Me as well, if I understand this too 5 list per country lots of Dutch companies are hiring from Kenya. I’ve been to meetups, I’m on LinkedIn and I’ve never seen anyone from Kenya. I’ve seen a lot of people from all over Europe and India.

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Post by emdowling »

yoz-y wrote: post #45
InvertedRhodium wrote: post #36

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> They lack ambition because the base quality of life is just so damn good. Do you really see this as a negative?

I guess if you plan to retire early and come back then earning a lot of money makes sense. Personally, the comments make me rather want to relocate to Australia.

This is exactly my plan. Another 6-7 years in London, then back to Australia. I love London and my life here - I’ll be able to move back to Australia when I’m 40, have a high quality of life and be in a strong financial position relative to my peers.

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Post by emdowling »

InvertedRhodium wrote: post #36
emdowling wrote: post #31

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Couldn’t agree with this post more. I left Australia 6 years ago and work for a FAANG earning 5x-7x in London than I would in Australia as a PM. Most Australian tech companies are mundane and boring. They lack ambition because the base quality of life is just so damn good.

> They lack ambition because the base quality of life is just so damn good. Do you really see this as a negative?

Not at all. I see it as a great thing! But I love London, and actually enjoy being career-focused right now. It satisfies me in a way that Australia did not. I definitely plan to move back in 6-7 years, and will be in a strong financial position when I do. Win-win.

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Post by robbiep »

threeseed wrote: post #90
astrange wrote: post #66

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US FAANG health insurance is better and cheaper than (Australian) Medicare, which doesn't cover dentists/therapists/psychiatrists/etc. Universal systems are of course better once you're too sick to keep your job. Also, Sydney's cost of living and housing crisis is apparently even worse than SV, though I don't understand how that's possible. We're very dedicated to making housing expensive here.

Dentists are covered by Medicare and are basically free (bulk billed). And Sydney doesn't really have a housing crisis anymore than Manhattan does. It's just that people want to live inner city without having to pay for it. You can find plenty of reasonably priced property if you go further out.

I’m not sure if you’re thinking of somewhere else, but Medicare does not cover dentistry - some health services have dentistry but it basically takes care of those who are having poor Health outcomes due to poor dentition (my housemate at Med school was studying dentistry and used to do a couple days out at westmead a week drilling on these people).

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Post by bigfudge »

ALittleLight wrote: post #70
InvertedRhodium wrote: post #59

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While I agree that the other poster was being a bit dramatic, it's no stretch to say that California performs objectively poorer in a number of areas that people tend to pay attention to. Just take one crime - the murder rates in California are 4.3 per 100,000 and only 0.8 in Australia. I can see why some people could see a 450% increase in the likelihood of being murdered as a comparitive warzone.

Looks like (from a quick googling, may be something I'm not taking into account here) violent crime is actually more common in Australia than in California. Australia 692 violent assaults per 100k [1] California 430 assaults per 100k [2] So, you'd also be trading more of a rare really bad thing for less of a relatively common bad thing. 1 - https://www.osac.gov/Country/Australia/Content/Detail/Report... . 2 - https:/…

That assumes assaults in the US are reported the same way. Murders probably are because there is a body. I doubt I her crime is given the weird incentives in the US system.

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Post by robbiep »

astrange wrote: post #73
shric wrote: post #69

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AU FAANG pay for health insurance too.

I was actually just looking at this and our benefits in AU seem to be A$3000 a year allowance towards a private plan. That doesn't seem like a lot, but maybe it's enough.

Private health insurance in Australia is quite cheap - my silver extras plan is $480/quarter (dentistry and basically anything else that could happen to me)
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