Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey

Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by nod on Friday February 10, 2012 @01:09AM (#3574745)

Pie charts for comparison?! Here, I made you some bar charts instead: http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/wpw/Country

Thanks to gavinballard for the CSV link.

If you want to see different breakdowns, just download the workbook/software and play with it yourself.

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by perfunctory on Friday February 10, 2012 @03:18AM (#3574984)

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/wpw/Experience

Where do developers disappear after 8 years? And then pop back up after 12.

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by jeroen on Friday February 10, 2012 @07:28AM (#3575480)

I think the right question is: what happened 12 years ago?

The answer could be that the bubble burst.

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by Cherad on Friday February 10, 2012 @08:52AM (#3575763)

I think there is a natural tail-off, but the 12+ year category rolls up this long tail into a substantial total.

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by michaelochurch on Friday February 10, 2012 @09:16AM (#3575837)

"12+" is a wider bucket than "9 to 11".

The half-life of a software engineer is about 5-6 years. To understand this, keep in mind that most of "software" isn't working on cutting-edge problems using high-productivity languages. It's Java/C++ legacy maintenance and crufty business logic. A substantial fraction of law and business school students are programmers who landed in enterprise Java jobs and bored out after a few years.

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by nodemaker on Friday February 10, 2012 @05:57AM (#3575276)

management?

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by troels on Friday February 10, 2012 @08:54AM (#3575770)

kids?

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Re:Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey by nodemaker on Friday February 10, 2012 @05:57AM (#3575273)

Actually that made me think about what pie charts are actually useful for.

I think they are useful when the decreased value of other metrics than our target metric is more appealing than the increased value of our target metric itself.Example: share of profit.

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