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Comment by pestaa | Hacker News Reader

1300 samples? With JavaScript being the strongest skill across the board? I'm not sure I actually believe the word "senior" in any occurrence on this page.

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It takes strong personality and many years of practice to learn JavaScript well. Stuff like elegance, compiler checks, namespaces are for cowards. If one survives JavaScript, any other task will be easy.

Its also not been an especially popular skill to learn until the last 5 - 10 years I would say.

Its seems contradictory that the roles requiring years of experience (or they ought to) have JavaScript as the top skill. I would have expected an older less trendy language (like Java or C, or SQL) to be top in those positions.

It is not strongest skill we are communicating, but most popular/common. The seniority is something which the user themselves provide.

As for the sample size. 1373 profiles supplied job titles that fell into these buckets out of approximately 3500 at the time we generated the infographic.

I think the repeated use of "Top Skill" rather than "Common Skill" is giving the wrong impression. The impression that Javascript is the most desired skill for 60% of the titles/shapes.

Fair comment. We'll get on updating this. Thanks for your feedback.

We've updated the info-graphic to be clearer in this regard.

Agreed on the "senior" designation. I'd prefer to see number of years developing software instead of an arbitrary title as the measure of experience.

The problem is, those title are just that - arbitrary. I've seen "senior" or "lead" developers with less than five years of experience. I don't necessarily have a problem with that if they're really that good, but how often is that the case?

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