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Show HN: How Much Money Can You Make Programming? - MAP
I have an impression that there is huge social pressure in India to become a developer. What makes sense is because it is a good profession.
Because many of these developers have too little capacities to become a programmer, hence, there may be a stereotype of poor programmers from India.
* Don't treat your test code as second class citizen. For tests follow the same clean code principles you are following for your app code.
* I saw many dirty workarounds for selenium tests that didn't behave as expected. In major count of it happens due to lack of understanding selenium / test framework API. So read the docs. If something doesn't work - read the docs again ;)
* Don't test everything with selenium E2E tests. Test this way just most crucial scenarios. Leave more detailed stuff to unit tests.
Here is a map showing average tech wages in a nice way: https://jobsquery.it/map
You can spot cities with highest salaries quite easy
https://jobsquery.it/stats/data.technologies/C
Stats also showing that average salary for C developers is above average for all tech job openings.
Check out programming language popularity in job offers:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group
Or just general buzzwords popularity:
https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=PUBLISHED_AT_D...
https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=SALARY_DESC;qu...
:)
https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group
JavaScript is mentioned in 17% of all tech job offers VS 10% for Python.
However in terms of average salary - Python is the winner. Average salary for Python openings is $117k annually VS $96k for Javascript.
(same stats page https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group )