Ask HN: What are list of technologies you used in your job for last 24 months?

2 points by ElectricMind 4 years ago | 3 comments

Hello All,

As you know, now days job description/requirements are so vague and includes so many things for just one role that it is hard to understand what is realistically needed or actually being used for that role in any organization. So this is one attempt to solve this puzzle, hopefully, with your help.

So maybe if you could write something on below format that would be helpful to everyone

Your Role/Title [1]: Extensive Used technologies in last 24 months [2]: Rarely/Sometimes used technologies in last 24 months [3]:

[1] For example: Senior Java Developer, Full Stack Developer etc... [2] Almost every day or most days in week [3] Not used in [2] but requires sometimes

Also one last question to this, if you could write job posting for your job today, what list of technologies bare minimum candidate must know to be successful in your job?

Thanks for your time. I hope it will help everyone to get realistic idea what is actually needed for any job :)

linkdd 4 years ago |

I'm the CEO of a two-men company (for now), and we're both software engineers:

  - Always used: Javascript/Typescript, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Tekton
  - Often used: Go/Python, Hasura & PostgreSQL
  - Rarely used: Elixir (we're planning to move our code-base to it, but that's not a priority)

For a R&D job, I would require:

  - intensive experience with at least one language, ideally one we use
  - some experience with a database, ideally PostgreSQL
  - optionally some experience with Docker
  - know how to use the shell and the terminal

IMHO, languages are just different syntax for the same patterns, and a good dev should be able to apply them in any language. There is a learning curve of course, but if you're a senior Java developer, I believe you will not have a hard time learning Typescript/Python or Go.

I'm interested in how people think, debug, and solve problems, not in the amount of line of code they're able to write. In fact, I'd rather recruit someone able to remove code instead of adding more.

ElectricMind 4 years ago | |

Thanks for reply. Would it be perceive as inflexibility if I want to stick to Java because there is so much more I am yet to learn in Java ecosystem? Also is it not better to hire experience Python developer if a company's technology stack is Python and not Java centric?

linkdd 4 years ago | | |

If you want to stick to Java and apply to a non-Java job, that's a bit of a waste of time for both, isn't it?

If a developer with more than 10 years experience in language XYZ applies for the job, it's because they feel they can be valuable to us.

Why would I reject them?

The problems they solved using XYZ in the last 10 years are probably a super-set of the problems we need to solve with language ABC. The solutions will be the same, it's just a matter of "translation".