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From experience, companies won't hire you if you express a strong distaste for their software stack. I learned this after I told the interviewer that I thought
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
From experience, companies won't hire you if you express a strong distaste for their software stack.
I learned this after I told the interviewer that I thought that PHP was a crap language, when interviewing for a PHP developer position.
- tracker1 9y agoI tend to feel the same wrt Java, not so much the language, but the tooling around the language feels like such a pain. I always hated PHP. I've worked with them both though. I happen to like the one language to rule them all (JS).
- hrktb 9y agoHonestly that doesn’t seem a bad decision. You will be eating PHP day in day out. It would be a bad choice for the company if they had candidates who otherwise don’t care that much about PHP’s problems, and a disservice to you if you could otherwise find equivalent jobs in a language you like better. Working in a PHP shop, nobody would care to shit on PHP during an interview. We know the shortcommings, it just doesn’t really matter that much.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoI'm definitely not criticising them for their decision. I honestly probably wouldn't've liked working with PHP all day long, especially since the job would've been working with quite a lot of legacy code.