Ask HN: C++ Dev Jobs Are Rare, Aren't They?
4 by ozudan | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Apart from game companies and the computer graphics scene, I don't find many C++ jobs at all. Most are either enlisted for languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript or Python. If you find a "C++" keyword in a typical job listing, it will be among a list of other high-level languages. And in my experience, you'll soon find out that it has nothing to do with C++ programming once you got past the interview process. Embedded development may seem as a last frontier for C++, but no, you won't find it there either most of the time. You'll rather find something C-related there. Furthermore, someone who interviewed embedded developers told me that those types of developers tend to be bad software engineers or C++ programmers for some reason. C++ jobs seem to be rather inside a niche market and many companies seem to have few use cases for it.