What I find very weird is the fact that almost every job has a hard requirement for Ruby (or now it seems Go, last time I checked their job adverts it was almos

What I find very weird is the fact that almost every job has a hard requirement for Ruby (or now it seems Go, last time I checked their job adverts it was almost exclusively Ruby). Which is not what most successful companies do, nor what makes sense to me. I mean, if I have a developer applying with 8 years of experience and a successful career who has adapted to new languages 4 or 5 times, why would I have reservations about them being able to adapt to Ruby (supposedly a very user friendly language)? I think I'll apply for that position at some point and see what happens. I've worked on search systems pretty extensively (query parsing, relevance tuning including learning to rank, performance monitoring and tuning) and I'd like to get a remote position working on search again but I'm fully expecting this not to matter compared to having no professional experience with Ruby.