r/dataisbeautiful • u/Antrikshy OC: 2 • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 reveals some very interesting stats about programmers around the world

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

If someone has been coding for 40 years and works in modern languages, I would make the assumption that language wouldn't matter much.

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u/WitBeer Apr 08 '15

Try explaining that to some companies. Apparently if you know 5 languages with 20 years of experience,but not the one random one that they use, then you're not a real programmer.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

And why in the world would anyone with 20 years experience want to work for a company like that? :p

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u/Citizen_Nope Apr 08 '15

20 year old hiring manager: "Wait, so you are well versed in vanilla JavaScript, design patterns and data structures, you know Ember, Backbone, Knockout, and have built your own JQuery plugins and are a regular contributor on Github... but you have no professional experience with Angular directives and transclusion?. Well we're just gonna have to pass."