HACKER Q&A
📣 EgoIsMyFriend

What Technologies Should I Learn to Quickly Secure a Remote Position


Say you have three months to learn something so good that you get the job right away after applying. Which technologies would it be?

PS: You already have a solid foundation in computer science and software engineering


  👤 gregjor Accepted Answer ✓
I think you ask the wrong question. No technology you can pick up in three months will get you a job right away, much less a remote job. Coding bootcamps -- which have little credibility with hiring managers already -- last longer than that. You don't say what work experience you have or what you already know how to do. The only realistic answer: To get any job you need to leverage the skills you can demonstrate, with experience to back it up. In this market you also need good professional contacts, persistence, and luck.

Any technology you can pick up in three months that would secure a job "right away" would already have hundreds of thousands of people doing the same thing, competing for the same jobs. You won't find any shortcut or one weird trick no one else knows about to get a job.

You may have noticed the short supply of tech jobs right now, and lots of people looking for jobs because of waves of layoffs. And you may have read about many major employers, especially in the tech sector, reining in remote workers and enforcing return to office policies. Finding any job right now presents big challenges, and finding a remote job now will prove even more challenging.


👤 websap
Prepare for leetcode and system design interviews. Thats going to be the key factor for breaking through to a tech job.

👤 austin-cheney
If you only have 3 months then forget learning technologies or padding a resume. Real skills are only measured in years of experience and often require some form of demonstration.

Instead seek entry level certifications. I recommend Security+ and what ever the entry level AWS cert is.

If you want to ignore all this advise and absolutely have to focus on a technology skill then master everything there is to know about data transmission. Learn the OSI model, HTTP, WebSockets, gRPC, certificates, and so on. Read the RFCs several times. In order to really attain mastery you should plan on studying 45-50 hours per week minimum with that time being intense dedicated focus.

Transmission mastery is what got me my current job, but in all fairness I was at it for more than 3 months. I had written an original WebSocket library a few years earlier and improved upon it over time. Despite the current industries most esteemed experts telling me one thing regarding the relationship between HTTP and WS I was able to prove them wrong, with working code, by demonstrating that HTTP could be served over WS and that WS does not have to be served over HTTP as many claim. Insights like that takes longer than 3 months to realize.


👤 meiraleal
I have seen many guys like you, spending 3, 4 years looking for 3-months hacks to get rich quick. I know none that succeeded.

👤 snailb
Go to LinkedIn > Search Jobs:

Filters: Worldwide

Remote

Experience Level: / Associate

Date: Last Week

Go through the results and look for jobs that you like. Read the requirements and try to target those skills. Also search for "certification" or "skill you have".


👤 raptorraver
Maybe Cobol?

👤 throw4950sh06
React, Node.js, TypeScript

👤 JSDevOps
You should already know this.

👤 visox
think haskell companies hired remotely also before it was popular.