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That's fine, what prompted my post: Talented developer writes me to join company because he likes the opportunity we are going after, but assumed we were ruby.
by aaronwhite 15y ago
That's fine, what prompted my post: Talented developer writes me to join company because he likes the opportunity we are going after, but assumed we were ruby. I share our tech stack, and he passes because he is "only looking for Ruby"... and I have so many counterpoints as to why that is a suboptimal career strategy.
- pnathan 15y agoWell, there's also the problem of "Requires X years of Y experience" jobs... if you are (e.g.), a Ruby person looking to move ahead, you want to increment X years in Ruby so your resume isn't trashed by the HR screener or the automated resume scanning program. So I disagree: it's a career strategy that is optimized for HR screeners and resume scanners, which most bigcos seem to use. (I personally prefer generalist positions but I don't see those advertised outside of startups).