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Anecdotally, this perspective is more common amongst early stage companies, non-tech firms, small and low-quality tech firms. It is entirely plausible to spend
by lumost 3y ago
Anecdotally, this perspective is more common amongst early stage companies, non-tech firms, small and low-quality tech firms. It is entirely plausible to spend a career between such shops repeating the same activities over and over again.
For example, wordpress developers for SMBs can command hefty fees.
If everyone you ever worked with was an X developer, why would you believe that someone could be an (X,Y,Z,A-C,E-F) engineer?
Likely, this divide motivates a persistent separation of groups - when I last interviewed for such a shop,they were stuck on me having professional experience in C/CPP/Java/Rust/Go/Python/Ruby/Perl/PhP. We ended up spending 30 minutes discussing what my strongest language was which likely told them nothing about my skills and experience nor did it tell me anything about the types of challenges they have.
- al_borland 3y agoIt doesn’t seem like there is much of a point to focusing on hiring for a particular language. If someone knows 2 or more, they know how to take some pretty universal concepts and apply them in different languages. If my company told me tomorrow I needed to use language X from here on out, it wouldn’t be a big deal. The basics come quick and quirks and optimizations will follow when using it every day. I think I’d feel compelled to try to explain this in an interview instead of answering specific language questions. I’m not sure how that would go. I haven’t been to an interview in years.