[TigerClaws]

Be a foreigner!

[Uncle Miltie]

Hindi.

[montag813]

BAD news for Microsoft

[AppyPappy]

I have Java, SQL and Javascript.

[McGruff]

They keep using those words Software Engineers. I don’t think they know what it really means.

[Resolute Conservative]

Fluent English should be #1.

[vbmoneyspender]

7. Linux consistently ranked as the 7th most demanded skill in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

What does that mean? Setting up a Linux box, command line facility, or something else?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

C, Python, Linux and doing fine with that.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I don’t know if this is true because my liberal friends have degrees in things like womens studies and Fine arts and I’m sure they wouldn’t waste all that time and money on something that didn’t have high job prospects.

[Mr. K]

Foreigners coming in to code java and python are some of the worst programmers I have ever seen, in the last 5 to 10 years (getting progressively worse)

I have mad a career out of fixing other people’s code.

I do C# .NET and MVVM/WPF. I get 5 to 10 calls per week.

I am surprised MVVM did not make the list

[central_va]

The 10 Most In-Demand Programming Skills for H-1B Software Engineers in 2016.

Americans need not apply.

[amorphous]

[familyop]

U.S. expects drop in programming jobs, but gains in IT jobs overall
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3375567/posts

My advice is to learn to design and build real and useful equipment. Join an open source equipment development project (open source tractors, cars, or something like that).

[sparklite2]

My last adventures were in VBA, Lotus 123 for VAX, and COBOL.
Yeah, I’m way out of the loop.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I sent that to my boss. I’m sitting at 8 of 10.

[MortMan]

Alas. Nothing about writing good requirements...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

How about skills like requirements gathering, database modeling, software integration and testing?

I guess as long as you write some Java it will all magically fit together to create a killer app.

[spintreebob]

SQL = Structured Query Language.

Why do so many have so much trouble recognizing that it is a robust language and not just a few I/O statements?

[Falconspeed]

Thank you for the list. Wow. Each would take me three months to learn. That would be ten new programs learned in (let’s see, 3x10=30 and divide by 12, um, calculator) two and a half years.

My friend who teaches computers at UCSB told me that incoming students need to build Pong in one week.

[UCANSEE2]

#1 Paid Programming skill .... Deleting emails