The heart of the problem is that people hiring for software engineering roles think hiring is all about "what you know". It isn't. To hire a good candidate, hir

The heart of the problem is that people hiring for software engineering roles think hiring is all about "what you know". It isn't. To hire a good candidate, hire for "who you are" and "who you can become". You want to hire learners not "experts" (read: someone versed in the methods that are about to be obsolete). Hiring is always more about adaptability and soft skills, no matter what role you're hiring for except in very specific, usually time-bound circumstances. This is why true specialists are either on contract or are consultants. Most of the tech industry does hiring completely wrong because, as usual, most software engineers are hyper literal, narrow minded, and lack the social insight required to be effective on a fundamentally social problem.