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Re:Where are you in your dev career? by abraxas on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:48AM (#43729193)
Very clear signs of Pareto distribution. Each ranked member near the top produces almost as much output as the rest of the tail combined.
Re:Where are you in your dev career? by nsjames on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:49AM (#43729210)
Yea, and I expect that trend to continue. It's a little forced right now since I've been populating it with some of the biggest names I can think of in the dev world so that there's a bit of a target for aspiration as well as some content on the site.

I imagine that the majority of users that would find this beneficial are between the 1-5 YOE so at least it'll become a pareto within that range eventually.

Re:Where are you in your dev career? by TheMongoose on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:49AM (#43729205)
At the stage where I'm wondering what to do for money in the short term while everyone re-discovers why they need good devs.
Re:Where are you in your dev career? by nsjames on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:51AM (#43729219)
I feel you.

I did free dev work for around a year while working other jobs just to cut into the market. That was almost 2 decades ago.

Re:Where are you in your dev career? by nsjames on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#43729133)
I keep seeing junior devs or recent grads that are entirely unsure how they stack up against their peers and decided to make something that helps them visualize it.