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Try being a Java developer in a modern world. In my non-Bay Area city, the majority of jobs are Node or RoR. Been struggling to find a job, especially since Ja

• badpun 7y ago
  > Java is synonymous with big data Most Java jobs are not big data. There may be a skew in the openings, as people with java/scala big data skills are hard to get, but there are probably millions of people doing non-big data Java development right now, and it's not going to change.
  • throwaway146 7y ago
    Sadly, that is not the case where I live. Mostly new companies, where the Java stack is not prevalent. No jobs to apply to, no one willing to even look at someone with experience in stacks other than their own. Not everyone lives in SF.
    • badpun 7y ago
      That's not SF situation. Probably 90%+ of boring big corps have millions and millions of lines of Java code to maintain and develop further. You just need to be in a city big enough to have some of those big companies. At least in Poland, it's hard to hire a generic senior Java dev. One possible explanation for what you're seeing (except not being in a right kind of city) is that maybe the offshoring has hit the US enough to affect the Java market? There tens/hundreds of thousands of Java developers working in Poland are doing offshore development for US/global corporations. The whole Central/Eastern Europe is like that.