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> Would it be a good idea to hire someone with 20 years experience in Python+Go+JavaScript+Perl+PHP for a C++ role? I my experience, when working in a programm
by q-big 5y ago
> Would it be a good idea to hire someone with 20 years experience in Python+Go+JavaScript+Perl+PHP for a C++ role?
I my experience, when working in a programming job, your programming skills rather degrade quite fast if you are not actively working in your free time to work hard against this degradation.
I rather get better in programming almost exclusively by the side projects that I do in my free time.
So, I would rather say that x years of job experience show nothing; what is important is what you do in your free time (if such side projects are possible).
- hiptobecubic 5y agoThis depends hugely on your job. If you spend all day writing variations on the same crud app handlers then yeah, you probably aren't learning anything new after two years. If you spend twenty years in that job, you probably aren't the kind of person that wants to learn new things anyway.