It's interesting how (according to these charts) Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA, and NYC has much more tech jobs than SF, on par with Pune.
This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.
windex 29 days ago [-]
India has a huge fake jobs problem. I think it is because of the number of "HR consultants" who constantly need to refresh their databases with "fresh" resumes. I've seen the same jobs being posted for over 8 years with no change whatsoever other than the keyword updates.
joenot443 29 days ago [-]
That's a funny mechanism. So these are fake jobs that HR consultants (recruiters?) use to harvest resumes?
What's the angle here?
Our_Benefactors 29 days ago [-]
They can submit those resumes to other positions.
This type of recruiter often is paid based on # of resumes furnished, not actually filling the position, so the incentives are completely misaligned.
sp1982 29 days ago [-]
Quickly checking db, SF bay area has quite a bit more than NYC. There are clearly a lot of .NET jobs too but didnt make it to cutoff. I will see if I can include metro areas when I get a chance.
darth_avocado 29 days ago [-]
I’m not sure how the list is being compiled but LinkedIn tells me there’s 10k jobs for “software engineer” in a 25 miles radius from me in the Bay Area. Either this data set is incomplete or LinkedIn is lying. Most likely it is both.
sp1982 29 days ago [-]
I got ~5K if I include Bay Area, tho my data only covers jobs that are active in the past 7d and am quite sure I have room to improve the crawl coverage. My hope is that this report is representative sample of trends.
hshdhdhj4444 29 days ago [-]
So many LinkedIn jobs are fake.
phendrenad2 29 days ago [-]
> Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA
Do you work at LinkedIn? How did you get this data?
saxenaabhi 26 days ago [-]
sir, you can search for "software engineer" on linkedin jobs and verify the count
phendrenad2 22 days ago [-]
I tried 'European Economic Area' but didn't get many results.
neogodless 29 days ago [-]
So there are no companies on Earth using (or at least hiring for) C# or .NET then... ?
reactordev 29 days ago [-]
There are definitely jobs for C# folks, where is mostly Finance. At least from what I’ve seen. Love .Net but they tend to gravitate towards Microsoft Corporate.
Most people, Java devs included, have incorporated another language into the quiver. Python perhaps. TypeScript for sure.
none2585 29 days ago [-]
Or native mobile?
sp1982 29 days ago [-]
just didn't make the cutoff of top 10 categories I am tracking, I will update the report. iOS/android/c# are around same range of 2%
1) US, Europe, China, India seem to be doing way better than the rest of the world
2) Germany still tops the charts in europe
3) China is probably undercounted, so I wonder if the real number is even higher than US. Would love to hear from people more familiar with chinese job market.
4) I wish Africa was doing better given the economic challenges
coro_1 29 days ago [-]
Certainly this AI report is prone to error and needs clarification. But it's a great starting point. Would love to see the page expanded on with sources. This:
Should be broken down with a tree that shows location.
acbart 29 days ago [-]
So is there a place where this compares to data from last year, or previous years?
sp1982 29 days ago [-]
Unfortunately I don't have it because I started working on this last year but I am curious to see how AI skills surface as the year progresses.
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analog31 29 days ago [-]
Good lord I though Indiana was leading the geographic listings for a moment.
sp1982 30 days ago [-]
Data is ex-china. Good luck to everyone looking for a new role in the new year.
dieselgate 29 days ago [-]
What does “ex-china” mean, excluding China?
Edit: did a quick find-in-page on mobile for “china” and it appears 0 times. Though notably China is missing from the geographic charts
sp1982 29 days ago [-]
Yes, excluding china. I don’t have a lot of companies based in china in my crawl data currently.
seanmcdirmid 29 days ago [-]
That makes sense, they have their own ecosystem for posting jobs there.
dieselgate 29 days ago [-]
Got it, thanks. Good write up and presentation.
nine_k 29 days ago [-]
Do they even hire engineers from abroad, or at least from the West?
re-thc 29 days ago [-]
Why not? Tiktok certainly needed engineers?
KnuthIsGod 29 days ago [-]
AI generated slop..
Crap like this should be banned.
visarga 29 days ago [-]
Not all AI generated outputs are slop, usually it's the low effort prompts that create slop. When you bring in external data or extensive human curation it is almost certainly not slop. I think many people put all AI outputs in the slop bucket but this is unfair to those who put a lot of thinking in their AI interactions. Slop is not given by the LLM, but by the human effort associated to that task. For code, it is the quality of the testing framework that sets the bar.
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This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.
What's the angle here?
This type of recruiter often is paid based on # of resumes furnished, not actually filling the position, so the incentives are completely misaligned.
That wouldn't exactly be surprising IMHO.
Most people, Java devs included, have incorporated another language into the quiver. Python perhaps. TypeScript for sure.
Linkedin shows the following
Quick thoughts1) US, Europe, China, India seem to be doing way better than the rest of the world
2) Germany still tops the charts in europe
3) China is probably undercounted, so I wonder if the real number is even higher than US. Would love to hear from people more familiar with chinese job market.
4) I wish Africa was doing better given the economic challenges
Edit: did a quick find-in-page on mobile for “china” and it appears 0 times. Though notably China is missing from the geographic charts