Doing a quick check of indeed, I see many refernces to Polyglot. Half of the ones I checked did not use the term properly. One did list it as a 'Like to have'

Doing a quick check of indeed, I see many refernces to Polyglot. Half of the ones I checked did not use the term properly. One did list it as a 'Like to have'. In general what I am seeing is they are looking for people who are not tied to one thing. I worked with a guy before, anything you asked the answer was 'Oh I can do that in Cold Fusion'. Another guy 'SQL is the answer'. To be fair, myself I favor C# as it is the most recent language I have done a lot of work in. But I am skilled in SQL, and Cold Fusion, as sell as SharePoint, JS, HTML, LISP and a few others. The important this is to be open to the other possibilities. Sometimes C# is the answer, but usually something else will work better, but you have to consider maintainability. The other thing a polyglot shows is you are learning diversity. Not stuck in what you learned 20 years ago at University. For most jobs they have 3 maybe as many as 5 real needs, but usually it is 3. You need to identify those and talk to how you match their NEEDS. Then look at the others and see how you can talk around them. <story> A number of years ago I was working for a company and we were going to hire another devloper to work with me. My boss created a job posting, without vetting it through me. I was surprised to see the list of langauages. C / C++ / C# / JS / Java / Ada / Assembly (2 specific versions), I think there were a couple more languages listed. These were all 'REQUIRED SKILLS'. I asked my boss why she did this, since no one in the company knew all those languages (I knew 5 of them, but I was an oddity, most only knew 2) and we only used 4 of those (C, ada and the 2 assembly languages). Her answer was 'Would it not be cool if we had someone who did?'. My answer was they either knew very little about each or were a compulsive liar. Most likely the compulsive liar. </story>