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Unfortunately it's not always the case - at least not with Ruby (which I consider somewhat nichy). My experience is the Ruby job interview is just like any othe

Unfortunately it's not always the case - at least not with Ruby (which I consider somewhat nichy). My experience is the Ruby job interview is just like any other algo/Leetcode type interview - in 90% of interviews they don't bother testing my Ruby knowledge (very likely the interviewer doesn't really know Ruby that well). Maybe 2 companies out of 15 had actual Ruby questions. So maybe Ruby is not niche enough or the hiring company thinks it's no problem teaching someone Ruby, idk. But I'm surprised again and again how little companies care about my actual experience. It's all algo questions or something about deployments/Kubernetes.

mkl95 5y ago
I'm a developer who mostly works with Python and I recently interviewed for a position that seemed to mostly involve Ruby on Rails. I was genuinely excited about working with Ruby, but the interviewer said they are struggling to hire Ruby developers and they are now hiring Python developers instead. It seems to be niche enough that small companies can't afford it.
- weatherlite 5y ago
  > It seems to be niche enough that small companies can't afford it. That's going overboard - tons of small companies use Ruby, but yes its way easier to find someone who already knows Python than it is Ruby.
hsn915 5y ago
Ruby is very much main stream. Any non-programmer business type who wants to start a startup immediately think it should be in Ruby or Python because that's what he think is the most popular thing.
- weatherlite 5y ago
  It's not niche like Clojure but nowhere near as mainstream as Java/Python. It's somewhere in the middle - maybe about the same adoption as Kotlin/Swift or something like that. I guess you can define it as semi-popular?
flippinburgers 5y ago
The market is full of ruby developer positions.
- weatherlite 5y ago
  Not denying that just venting my frustration with the current tech interview ... but the Stoic in me thinks maybe its time I stopped complaining and just accepted it.

mkl95 5y ago

I'm a developer who mostly works with Python and I recently interviewed for a position that seemed to mostly involve Ruby on Rails. I was genuinely excited about working with Ruby, but the interviewer said they are struggling to hire Ruby developers and they are now hiring Python developers instead. It seems to be niche enough that small companies can't afford it.

weatherlite 5y ago
> It seems to be niche enough that small companies can't afford it. That's going overboard - tons of small companies use Ruby, but yes its way easier to find someone who already knows Python than it is Ruby.

hsn915 5y ago

Ruby is very much main stream. Any non-programmer business type who wants to start a startup immediately think it should be in Ruby or Python because that's what he think is the most popular thing.

weatherlite 5y ago
It's not niche like Clojure but nowhere near as mainstream as Java/Python. It's somewhere in the middle - maybe about the same adoption as Kotlin/Swift or something like that. I guess you can define it as semi-popular?

flippinburgers 5y ago

The market is full of ruby developer positions.

weatherlite 5y ago
Not denying that just venting my frustration with the current tech interview ... but the Stoic in me thinks maybe its time I stopped complaining and just accepted it.