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That might be true for lower-level positions and short-term contracts, but it's also not a big deal. If you are out of work for a month you can learn one of the
by akvadrako 8y ago
That might be true for lower-level positions and short-term contracts, but it's also not a big deal. If you are out of work for a month you can learn one of the new techs and be as productive in it as a overall less experienced developer who's been using it for years.
When you find clients by word of mouth they rarely even ask for your CV - it's just "can you do this?".
- mixmastamyk 8y agoNope, I'm often up for senior Django positions and such. I've been using mostly Flask for a few years so will often not be able to answer highly specific questions about Django. Once I did well with the first generic question, do not filter in application code, do it in database. (Thought that was 10x more important than any library question.) Next question how to access a field with F(). Needed to look at stack overflow, did within a few mins. No offer. Also, they will ask questions across multiple fields which can't all be studied for. One Java Spring shop asked exclusively database questions after I spent weeks brushing up on Java Spring. Could only answer 90% of the questions, not bad considering. Even had a friend on the inside. No offer. Think about all the pass/fail exams at University with two surprise questions from any technical field. Oh yeah, doesn't exist because it would be absurd. It's endemic, bad interviews and coderpad.io. If you've got a network you can skip most of it, perhaps why many have not realized how bad it is from the outside.