Best Blogs of February

Our best blogs for February post includes stories on the six-figure job might not have heard of, programming languages going the way of the dodo and how to retain female tech professionals. That’s a lot of great stuff to read while waiting for the weather to break!

The Great Six-Figure Job You Might Not Have Heard Of  

Like the unicorn and the million-dollar lottery ticket, the enjoyable six-figure job with great career prospects is supposed to exist, but most of us have never seen it.

Good six-figure jobs do exist, truth be told, and recent rankings from Glassdoor has highlighted another one: front-end engineer. The job was recently ranked No.1 in terms of overall job satisfaction, scoring a 3.9 out of 5. The ranking was based on salary, career prospects and job satisfaction.

With the job market currently being the way that it is, heavily favoring the job seeker, you might be thinking there are a lot of great, well-paying career opportunities out there right now. However, the job market can quickly shift and there’s no guarantee that 2020 will have a robust job market. Hiring could slow and wage growth could soften.

According to experts, front end engineer is highly ranked because there’s a lot of competition for these jobs between tech companies and non-tech companies.

Read the whole story here. 

Don’t Put Stock in These Programming Languages 

Like sands falling through the hourglass of time, these are the days of Objective-C.

Apple’s original programming language is on the way out and it is taking a lot of other programming languages with it. If you want to stay relevant in technology, it’s important to both keep on top of the most useful languages, as well as regularly transition away from languages that are starting to become useless.

Those in the industry know Python and JavaScript will be essential languages for years to come. It’s also worth knowing that languages like Objective-C, CoffeeScript, Perl, R and Ruby are all headed out to pasture.

Apple launched swift in 2014 with the intention of killing off Objective-C. However, Objective-C lives on, maintaining a stranglehold on market-share. Experts say this is because Swift wasn’t launched as a fully featured language and Apple has spent the last five years adding essential features. As Swift becomes more mature, as it is expected to do, Objective-C will become less and less relevant.

Read the whole story here. 

How to Keep Female Tech Employees 

Plenty of research indicates the benefits of companies with a level of diversity that mirrors the diversity of their customers. For tech businesses and departments, this underlines the importance of strongly working to hire and retain a gender-diverse staff.

Businesses must concentrate on establishing a culture within their organization supports gender diversity and enables everybody to prosper and contribute. Company policies, values, and communication habits can all be developed to support diversity.

Employee retention and development are essential performance indicators of a supportive culture, as tech companies and departments work toward a workplace embraces fairness and equity.

Read the whole story here.