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Can only confirm that. Such a smooth platform overall for web and API development. We use it with several 100 devs on it and the choice never failed us, neither

by oaiey 11mo ago

Can only confirm that. Such a smooth platform overall for web and API development. We use it with several 100 devs on it and the choice never failed us, neither in technology or hiring. And it is not that we have .NET gurus or anything.

balamatom 11mo ago
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- LandR 11mo ago
  > Apropos, what do they do for fun? Odd question, but as a .NET developer myself Mountaineering, climbing, bouldering, going to gigs, playing pool, running, music festivals, gaming, photography, watching F1, watching NBA, eating out with friends... I'm not sure what the point of the question was ?
  - balamatom 11mo ago
    Ah, well, obviously the point of the question was to be odd for oddness's sake, as some form of bizarre, self-inflatory social ploy! I couldn't possibly have intended my question as a straightforward request for information about something, now could I? That would just be weirdy-weird, if people started asking each other questions for the purpose of receiving answers. Thanks for answering though.
    - LandR 11mo ago
      The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen any correlation between someones hobbies outside of work and what tech stack they use at work.
      - balamatom 11mo ago
        That's OK. I keep seeing a correlation between people's proneness to be like >The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen [it] and which tech stacks they feel more comfortable with.
- recursive 11mo ago
  > what do they do for fun? Play in a band, ride bikes, play video games. Sample size of one.
  - balamatom 11mo ago
    >Play in a band Cool, what genre?
    - recursive 11mo ago
      Rock mostly covers. I play keyboard. Trying to learn to sing. Progress is mixed.
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larrik 11mo ago
As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS). For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in general, but almost zero that meet our standards. For Python roles we get way fewer applicants, but the average quality is much much higher than the .NET average. (JS is a whole other thing, and we frankly aren't as good at hiring there yet)
- zerr 11mo ago
  Do you measure that standard by leetcode?
  - larrik 11mo ago
    No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the syntax, nevermind the "why" of things (even WHY you need StringBuilder) or what a database index is, etc.
    - zerr 11mo ago
      Interesting. One would thing, "script kiddies" would be more common among Pythonistas. On the other hand, .NET might be more user-friendly, so that devs are productive even without the knowledge of what's going on under the hood. Kudos for the interview practices, that's similar to how I conduct as well :)

by oaiey 11mo ago

balamatom 11mo ago

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LandR 11mo ago
> Apropos, what do they do for fun? Odd question, but as a .NET developer myself Mountaineering, climbing, bouldering, going to gigs, playing pool, running, music festivals, gaming, photography, watching F1, watching NBA, eating out with friends... I'm not sure what the point of the question was ?
- balamatom 11mo ago
  Ah, well, obviously the point of the question was to be odd for oddness's sake, as some form of bizarre, self-inflatory social ploy! I couldn't possibly have intended my question as a straightforward request for information about something, now could I? That would just be weirdy-weird, if people started asking each other questions for the purpose of receiving answers. Thanks for answering though.
  - LandR 11mo ago
    The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen any correlation between someones hobbies outside of work and what tech stack they use at work.
    - balamatom 11mo ago
      That's OK. I keep seeing a correlation between people's proneness to be like >The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen [it] and which tech stacks they feel more comfortable with.
recursive 11mo ago
> what do they do for fun? Play in a band, ride bikes, play video games. Sample size of one.
- balamatom 11mo ago
  >Play in a band Cool, what genre?
  - recursive 11mo ago
    Rock mostly covers. I play keyboard. Trying to learn to sing. Progress is mixed.

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larrik 11mo ago

As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS). For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in general, but almost zero that meet our standards. For Python roles we get way fewer applicants, but the average quality is much much higher than the .NET average. (JS is a whole other thing, and we frankly aren't as good at hiring there yet)

zerr 11mo ago
Do you measure that standard by leetcode?
- larrik 11mo ago
  No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the syntax, nevermind the "why" of things (even WHY you need StringBuilder) or what a database index is, etc.
  - zerr 11mo ago
    Interesting. One would thing, "script kiddies" would be more common among Pythonistas. On the other hand, .NET might be more user-friendly, so that devs are productive even without the knowledge of what's going on under the hood. Kudos for the interview practices, that's similar to how I conduct as well :)