> If a company is after an experienced person then they want someone who can come up to speed with their codebase quickly. This means they do not want to spend

> If a company is after an experienced person then they want someone who can come up to speed with their codebase quickly. This means they do not want to spend time training someone in the languages and preferably the frameworks used. I think there's more to it than this - companies want new hires to approximately align on culture things. If I'm a Go shop I don't want someone to endlessly whine about how Rust or Elixir or whatever is better and vice versa