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I agree but many job postings contain stuff like "3+ years of professional experience in language x".
by est31 6y ago
I agree but many job postings contain stuff like "3+ years of professional experience in language x".
- abzug 6y agoYes but with time you gain experience in one or more languages and you can choose a job with the ones you like (or tolerate more). You don't need to pick or specialize one to apply for this kind of postings.
- azdle 6y agoHonestly as someone (on the team) hiring for a job where someone else wrote the job posting, ignore the number. Just read that as "do you think you enjoy maintaining a codebase written in X". Job postings are the fucking worst.
- void_mint 6y agoI've never actually found that to be enforced. None of my jobs have shared a tech stack, all of them have included such language. YMMV of course.
- oblio 6y agoThey don't enforce the number of years, but they could ask you quite deep questions about the language. Even if you're a senior Python/Javascript developer, with experience in C# in the past, etc., if they start grilling you about Ruby, you probably won't prove that you're as equally productive as a similarly smart dev that is an actual senior Ruby dev.