Ask HN: How to estimate full stack skills?

5 points·amirouche··4 comments

I'm looking for a way to do have a big picture of my skills and compare it to trade skills in the topic of backend, web & native frontend development, database and devops mainly.

I'd like to have a list for every topic to check with the things I know and in fine learn about what I don't know.

I'm interested in "skill boards" about ML & NLP too.

Thanks.

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Sijin Joeseph's Programmer Competency Matrix is perhaps more general than you are looking for, but relevant.

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

There's some precedent for this in the contractor-marketplaces like Odesk. They'll have a list of dozens of skills/topics that a contractor can prove their knowledge of. They give them a score based on their performance relative to the larger group who has taken the test. You can see the tests here: https://www.odesk.com/tests (but you'll need to create an odesk account first).

There are also a number of coding-challenge sites where you can show off your skills and get ranked, like codeeval.com

Both these types of scoring systems are just rough heuristics though. Since full-stack development uses a lot of "soft" skills like organization and creativity, you'll never really get the full-picture from these kinds of objective battery tests.

This may not be exactly what you want, but may be good start http://www.sitepoint.com/full-stack-developer/

This is actually a good post, and it would be very useful to have some sort of repeatable way to compare your own skills to the skills requested by a certain industry/market.

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