The way I read this is that they had tech experience (e.g. not mowing lawns) but that it wasn't related to Shopify tech, so something other than Rails, JS/TS, e

The way I read this is that they had tech experience (e.g. not mowing lawns) but that it wasn't related to Shopify tech, so something other than Rails, JS/TS, etc. Still, it seems to me like as good a reason to get downlevelled as any. If you join a Rails company without Rails experience, I would expect a downlevel but an articulated path to "get back" to your current level faster than normal.