No it's not. If you're a senior python engineer, that means I expect you not only to be an experienced engineer but to really grok python. I don't want you c

No it's not. If you're a senior python engineer, that means I expect you not only to be an experienced engineer but to really grok python. I don't want you coming from C and writing python code that looks like C. For experienced engineers, we can learn the basic of any new language fast! But to master any language takes a while. If the language is not specific there are now 3 hurdles for you to scale, learning the language, learning the code base and possibly learning the business domain. The only time a company should not care is if they are doing trivial things or having a hard time filling their pipeline.