Hackerrank 2018 Survey Analysis — Gender focused Insights

Competitive Coding Platform Hackerrank conducted a survey with its developers and below is the insights from analysing the dataset that was opensourced by Hackerrank on Kaggle Datasets platform. About the dataset and Survey A total of 25,090 professional and student developers completed our 10-minute online survey. The survey was live from October 16 through November 1, 2017. The survey was hosted by SurveyMonkey and we recruited respondents via email from our community of over 3.4 million members and through social media sites. Focus of this Analysis While this is a general survey dataset, the focus of this analysis is to understand . Women in Tech Highlights A very clear action is to motivate and appreciate Girls code from the early age. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have started coding while they were in high school. Organizations working to improve diversity in Tech should start right from there. . Also Parents should be educated of how important it is for their Girl child to code School Computer Science degree has been perceived as something that Boys do well. Universities need to market Computer Science Degree for all. It should make girls believe that it’s something that’s definitely their cup of Tea. Also adding mandatory Female quota to improve diversity in the classroom could help. University CS Degree Marketing Proportion of Female Students seemed to be improving with respect to the past. It’s very important to preserve them, hone them and take them forward without them dropping off due to lack of proper mentorship. Hence, Community like should organize Coding Awareness events among those to ensure them their confidence. Hacker Rank Developing Nations — especially African nations are leading in Female-to-Male Ratio. A specific survey targeted at them and also a with them could help us with take away to improve the larger community. focus group discussion Helping Women move up in ther Career from Junior Developer to Senior Developer is important. That’s exactly the time when they’re filled with many commitments in their personal life. It’s important to push organizations that want to improve diversity to push for those women who want a long leave of absence with a surity of a job when they come back and also to . Sabbatical emrbace Women into jobs after a career gap Adding up to the above point, Enabling Working environment will also help the larger goal. Remote/Flexible Defining a clear for new comers — espcially with respect to the langauge that’s on demand in the market — Javascript / Python. I’m obliged to mention that does an amazing job in that — for completely free. learning path Freecodecamp While teaching to code, It’s important to promote maintain an . Because as says, . Hence the projects (mini/major) or any other work of them either in the form of code or a blog post should be made published online. online portfolio like github or a blog Cal Newport “If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive” Along with the technical skills, It’s also clear that hiring managers look for the ability to communicate well and to learn new. That makes it important to help those new learns, learn such . Soft Skills Meta: The above insights have been derived from the analysis performed using Rmarkdown hosted on . The analysis uses R programming for data analysis and an R wrapper around javascript library to interactive plots. Kaggle Kernel highcharter highchart.js