Technology Professionals in Memphis Survey Results

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  • Joe

Here are the results from our "Are you a tech professional in Memphis" survey:

Total Respondents: 70

Do you live in the Memphis Area (Or regularly commute the 240 Loop)?

Respondents: 100% - 70

Answer % of total Count
Yes 94.29% 66
No 5.72% 4

Do you write code / software as a full time or part time job?

Respondents: 100% - 70

Answer % of total Count
Yes 72.86% 51
No 27.14% 19

Have you ever been to a #memtech Meet up event such as Memphis Python, Memphis .Net, MemphisPHP, Memphis Ruby, etc?

Answer % of total Count
Yes 51.43% 36
No 48.57% 34

What languages (or frameworks) listed below do you use everyday as part of your job?

Respondents: 68.57% - 48

Language / Framework % of total Count
VB.net / C# / ASP.net / Microsoft .Net 52.08% 25
Java / JSP / Android 25.00% 12
PHP / Laravel / Symfony / CakePHP / CodeIgniter / WordPress 20.83% 10
Python / Django / Flask 14.58% 7
Ruby / Ruby on Rails 16.67% 8
Objective C 6.25% 3
Swift 2.08% 1
Write in alternatives
Technology % of Write ins Responses
JavaScript 40.74% 11
BASH 18.52% 5
C++ 11.11% 3
HTML 11.11% 3
PL/SQL 11.11% 3
T-SQL 11.11% 3
CSS 7.41% 2
Spring 7.41% 2
SQL 7.41% 2
AngularJS 3.70% 1
C 3.70% 1
CFML 3.70% 1
Clojure 3.70% 1
Cobol 3.70% 1
Go 3.70% 1
Groovy 3.70% 1
Java 3.70% 1
LaTeX 3.70% 1
NodeJS 3.70% 1
Meteor 3.70% 1
Perl 3.70% 1
Powershell 3.70% 1
SAP 3.70% 1
Scala 3.70% 1
SharePoint 3.70% 1
Structured text 3.70% 1

If you have never been to a #memtech Meet up event, what prevents you from going?

Respondents: 48.57% - 34

Choice % of responses Responses
Family / Work scheduling prevents me from attending 50.00% 17
Didn't realize there was a meet up group 32.35% 11
No meet up for my language 8.82% 3
Too far from home or work 8.82% 3
Write in Explanations:
How you found the survey? Count
Reddit (r/memphis) 7
Twitter 2
What prevents you from going to meet ups? Count
I'm not a developer so going to dev events is intimidating 1
School 1
Work 1
Too far from Millington 1
Downtown is far 1
Not a developer, but work with them 1
Not interested in networking with others 1
Just don't get around to it 1
No networking forum 1