Python for Decision Makers and Business Leaders Transcripts
Chapter: Hiring and jobs in the Python space
Lecture: Python jobs according to Stackoverflow Careers
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Let's round out this chapter by coming back to an old friend, Stack Overflow. We saw Stack Overflow has that cool graphs
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about languages and demand interest in just interacting with languages. They also have this thing called Stack Overflow Careers
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and if you go there, you can ask how many jobs you have that are Java jobs or Python jobs or Rust. This graph looks surprisingly different
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compared to Indeed, but you know, that's fine. Multiple data sources give you more perspective. It surprised me how low .NET was
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on the Stack Overflow Careers. Right now, there's 253 open positions there. I kind of expected it to be higher because Stack Overflow originated
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as almost a pure C# .NET space. Whatever, make whatever out of that whatever you want. Then we have C++ is a little bit higher this time
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instead of lower than .NET. Over in Java, we have Java winning the race here. Java's over a thousand. But Python, while not beating Java this time
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you know, it's still kind of neck and neck. It's up there with Java. And then Rust, yeah, Rust is even less represented here.
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I think, for example, there's 80 times the number of Python jobs instead of just 50. Either way, Rust is way, way, way down there. What do you think?
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What do you make of these numbers? Certainly there's two major takeaways here that I think are clear. There are many, many Python jobs available
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and that probably means there are many, many Python developers out there. Second, Python developers are paid pretty well.
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When we compared it against all those different languages on Indeed, they were at least comparable
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if not even a little bit higher than all of the others. That's the Python job and hiring space.