Hacker News Reader

Then don't work at those companies. It seems there's always .NET jobs - I get recruiters all the time bugging me about those gigs, but I get nothing on any of the other languages I've worked with (and the .NET work I've done is a very small % of my career). Perhaps it's a location thing - Houston is definitely a .NET town.

View on HN

And the San Francisco Bay area is _not_. That's been frustrating. Fortunately, I had a lot of PHP in the past so that helped me find a place when I decided to roll the dice and leave Texas.

Now back to scraping up some Python and coming up with a good project to throw on GitHub to show "Yes, I are engineer. Here is me saying 'shibboleth'."

Some areas are location specific. Richmond VA seems to be a .NET and Java town mostly. My team's stack is Apache httpd PHP and Java mostly on Linux. A little scripting in Python and bash.

It would be cool to have a map showing what stack/language is most marketable in what area, so that one can adjust time spent on learning new tools depending on where they want to go. But maybe these things evolve faster than the time scale involved in getting enough experience to be attractive for employers.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com