> taught myself Android, nodejs, golang etc etc but those do not matter in outsourcing shops. in general, they don't most of the time people are looking for 1/

> taught myself Android, nodejs, golang etc etc but those do not matter in outsourcing shops. in general, they don't most of the time people are looking for 1/2 year experience in particular technology, not overall experience. I think it's just to filter out out senior developers. Some do value your overall experience but they can always hire a senior that can handle 5 to 10 new devs. I have seen that happened often.