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Please don't hire based on knowledge of a language or a framework. It's a bad habit, because the best software engineers span languages and frameworks. I am no
by pnathan 15y ago
Please don't hire based on knowledge of a language or a framework. It's a bad habit, because the best software engineers span languages and frameworks.
I am not a super-dev, but I can write code in an unfamiliar language in a day or two (non-idiomatic, of course). Better people than I can do better, I am sure.
I am sure you will be able to find great engineers if you open up your playing field.
- chrisbolt 15y agoYou may be able to write code, but can you understand code that was already written by someone who knows all of the idiosyncrasies of a language you're not familiar with?
- pnathan 15y agoYes, if I have time to dig into it and access to documentation. Stackoverflow really helps too. :-) Of course a quick glance at a program in an unfamiliar non-procedural language defeats me.