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I have a few Rails gigs listed on my linkedin from years ago, and I constantly get recruiter messages looking to fill RoR positions despite not having used it f

by xor1 8y ago

I have a few Rails gigs listed on my linkedin from years ago, and I constantly get recruiter messages looking to fill RoR positions despite not having used it for years. I've been told by the recruiters that I chat with that senior Rails positions are increasingly harder to fill with each passing year. Whether that means the Job Providers in my sample simply aren't paying enough, Rails devs are sick of maintaining legacy Rails apps, or a combination of both, it seems like everyone I know who spent years working nearly exclusively with Ruby has now moved on to Go, Elixir, or Node.

oceanghost 8y ago
I've had the same experience, having done exactly one, one-month RoR project and a lot of embedded Ruby. At the end of the day though, the couple of jobs I did investigate were really pretty shitty. One company asked me to do a coding challenge... I said, "Sure, about how long will it take me?" "I dont know." "What's the subject matter?" "I don't know." "How will you grade the test?" "I dont know." "When do you need it?" "Thursday." "So the only thing you know about this test is it has to be done right now?"
mkirklions 8y ago
This is probably a larger sign of a dying language more than anything. They cant find talent and the company needs a budget programmer to clean up (legacy) problems.
busterarm 8y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I haven't touched Rails professionally in years. I've gone on some of those interviews and every single time it's a quagmire of technical debt. An app where someone made all of the wrong choices and moved on. I even had done some consulting work with some "CTOs" who were running Rails 4 and insisting on doing everything from Rails 2 Railscast examples. I don't even entertain those interviews anymore. All of the other Ruby work available is more interesting.
RangerScience 8y ago
My issue was that all the most interesting stuff wasn't in Rails. Sure, I could senior RoR, but it'd be for yet another ad-tech company :/
brightball 8y ago
I did PHP, Java and Perl work for years before diving into Rails for a little over a year on a big job. As soon as that job was done and I updated my Linked In / Resume to include Rails I was FLOOOOOOOOOODED. It was nuts. Never seen anything like it.

by xor1 8y ago

oceanghost 8y ago

I've had the same experience, having done exactly one, one-month RoR project and a lot of embedded Ruby. At the end of the day though, the couple of jobs I did investigate were really pretty shitty. One company asked me to do a coding challenge... I said, "Sure, about how long will it take me?" "I dont know." "What's the subject matter?" "I don't know." "How will you grade the test?" "I dont know." "When do you need it?" "Thursday." "So the only thing you know about this test is it has to be done right now?"

mkirklions 8y ago

This is probably a larger sign of a dying language more than anything. They cant find talent and the company needs a budget programmer to clean up (legacy) problems.

busterarm 8y ago

I'm in the same boat as you. I haven't touched Rails professionally in years. I've gone on some of those interviews and every single time it's a quagmire of technical debt. An app where someone made all of the wrong choices and moved on. I even had done some consulting work with some "CTOs" who were running Rails 4 and insisting on doing everything from Rails 2 Railscast examples. I don't even entertain those interviews anymore. All of the other Ruby work available is more interesting.

RangerScience 8y ago

My issue was that all the most interesting stuff wasn't in Rails. Sure, I could senior RoR, but it'd be for yet another ad-tech company :/

brightball 8y ago

I did PHP, Java and Perl work for years before diving into Rails for a little over a year on a big job. As soon as that job was done and I updated my Linked In / Resume to include Rails I was FLOOOOOOOOOODED. It was nuts. Never seen anything like it.