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According to Alexandra Akhmetova, head of staffing and development at Norbit (part of the Lanit group), the IT market as a whole is very resilient, making it difficult to find such technical skills that would cause 100% rejection in any given situation. company, but there are still some patterns.
“They say there is less need for Delphi, Python and C# programmers,” Akhmetova said.
The IT professional explained that the specific set of knowledge, expertise, training, and other inputs depends on the client or the position for which the specialist is being evaluated. He realized that despite its declining role in the industry as a whole, C# was still a sought-after language for Norbit.
Anastasia Nazarova, vice president of the Skillbox Career Center, told socialbites.ca that Perl is less popular in the ratings today. “Mainly because it was replaced by a simpler and more functional Python,” he explained.
The IT specialist also noted that Haskell (although still used by global IT giants like IBM) and Objective-C currently do not enjoy their former popularity.
But Nazarova made sure that there is no categorical approach to finding a job that knows these programming languages.
Popularity does not equal money
Alexander Kiselev, founder and CEO of Rebotica, is confident that until now there is no clear stranger among programming languages in IT. However, a recent survey of users of Stack Overflow, the largest forum for programmers, identified seven of the least popular.
According to both beginners and advanced programmers from all over the world, these programming languages are much less used than others: Fortran, Erlang, APL, COBOL, SAS, OCaml and Crystal.
The study also made it possible to identify which of the programmers were foreigners in terms of median salaries among IT professionals.
It turns out that employers pay developers “only” about $43.7k a year (2.7 million rubles at the current exchange rate) to developers familiar with the Dart language. PHP programmers get a little more ($50.5k or 3.1m rubles per year) and MATLAB ($57.5k or 3.5m rubles per year).
However, these fees are almost twice as low as those for the highest paying domains in IT. It is the leading Clojure programming language. According to the participants, specialists working on it earn on average more than 106,000 dollars, or 6.5 million rubles. within the year.
In the middle of the list are Delphi-, Python- and C# programmers. Employees with these skills have an annual salary of about $65,000-70,000.
According to Stack Overflow, Delphi experts earn $64,000 (3.9 million RUB), Python experts $71,100 (4.3 million RUB) and C# experts $69,500 (4.2 million rubles).
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Angelina Kapitonova, director of personnel development at the Digital Economy League, warned in an interview with socialbites.ca that online courses will not be enough to get a job in a large organization when retraining as an IT specialist from scratch.
“You need to look for unpaid internships in IT companies – they provide much more information and practice, based on this you can get a job offer,” said the specialist.
Norbit’s Alexandra Akhmetova said the main dropout factor when considering a job in IT is more likely a lack of so-called soft skills.
“This is a clear apathy of a person, lack of critical thinking, inability to work in a team, unwillingness to learn. This will alert me much more than free courses or missing higher education,” he explained.
Alexander Kiselev of Rebotica admits that they don’t currently hire “juniors” (starters) most of the time, as getting a job often requires some work experience.
“In most IT companies in Russia, there is no clear definition of all roles, there is a “pipeline” into which almost any specialist with programming skills can be placed,” he added.
The specialist noted that in Russia sometimes the functions of developers are duplicated in different departments, and this can be avoided by simplified business processes.
Public sector – more conditions
Norbit’s Alexandra Akhmetova also said that sometimes novice IT specialists do not consider other additional conditions for working in companies associated with government involvement.
“If we are talking about a project for the public sector with high security requirements, then most likely they will not take into account foreign nationals or people living outside of Russia,” he said.
Also, Akhmetova noted that the reason for the refusal in such cases may be the lack of higher technical education.
Angelina Kapitonova from the League of Digital Economy added that doing internships in IT companies is not a 100% guarantee of employment, even if they were trained there.
“It’s very important for someone new to IT to be active and independent. Not a single company will teach a profession if the candidate doesn’t make an effort,” he said.
Kapitonova advised all young people to develop relationships with future colleagues at the stage of education and internship in order to increase their chances of finding a job.
He said novice IT pros should talk to developers working on Java, Kotlin, Go and Hadoop in particular. “Such specialists are involved in the most demanded projects. They work in areas such as Business Intelligence and Big Data, web and mobile applications development.”