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> I was rejected at Amazon and other companies with no technical interviews because I wasn't a Java engineer. That one seems pretty legit to me.
by jdoliner 11y ago
> I was rejected at Amazon and other companies with no technical interviews because I wasn't a Java engineer.
That one seems pretty legit to me.
- sharpy 11y agoThey hired me despite my not knowing any Java. I was there for close to 5 years and did my share of interviewing and I haven't seen a single instance where lack of specific programming language skill was brought up as a reason to reject the candidate. But yeh, the whole hiring process is more random than it should be.
- philjohn 11y agoDepends. Is the person a polyglot with extensive experience in more than one language of a similar paradigm? If so ... it's just learning the syntax, libraries and idioms ... it's not rocket science.