At a startup, we interviewed purely for being able to d x task in Angular, Entity Framework, MongoDB, C#, and other components of our tech stack. It worked out

At a startup, we interviewed purely for being able to d x task in Angular, Entity Framework, MongoDB, C#, and other components of our tech stack. It worked out well for us - we just needed a website built. The company I work for now interviews only on the fundamentals and problem solving in language of choice - I am starting to come around and see the benefit of this, but it seems it only makes sense with senior candidates who context-switch a lot and need to intrinsically understand GraphQL the moment they hear about it because they know it's a graph.