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Good engineers are good engineers, regardless of how "rusty" they may be with particular technologies. I'd take skilled developers with a breadth of experience
by Doches 9y ago
Good engineers are good engineers, regardless of how "rusty" they may be with particular technologies. I'd take skilled developers with a breadth of experience in unrelated tech over someone who's only worked with the exact set of technologies I'm aiming to use.
In other words, if I'm building an Electron app I'd prefer a solid engineer who has never written a line of Typescript to someone who only knows Electron.
- jevgeni 9y agoThank you! I agree with you on this. The reason why I am interested in this, is that in my opinion engineers must always be open to learn new things and new tech. So, I was wondering, if it is possible to make the argument "If you stop learning or at least following the industry for X months, you are out of the game."
- Doches 9y agoIf you stop learning for a few months, do you somehow lose the ability to start learning again in the future? That seems...unlikely.
- jevgeni 9y agoI agree with you completely! I'm just gathering objective opinions to to able to argue that continous learning is an important skill for engineers to begin with. As in, you can't just finish Uni knowing intermediary programming in Java (for example) and be content with it.