LinkedIn messages from recruiters saying I'm the perfect fit for a job that requires 3 languages I've never worked with 🙄

I get a call from one every 6 Months to see if I need a job lol

Languages can be learned. Paradigms can be taught/learned, and some things are unique to certain languages, while others are more universally used. Experience in uears isn't always a hard requirement.

Ymmv

What a useless bunch of fuckwits they are most of the time, it's the only job that has zero barrier for entry.

I get these, and offer for places that are on the other side of the country!

I got a message about a job the other day saying "... with the best salary I've seen in years!".

Right.

Regarding distance: I was looking for a new position a few years back as the current company wanted to relocate the office to a place that would turn my commute from a 15 minute affair to a 90 minute event on a good day. The distance wasn't significant, but the traffic was horrific as I would be fighting it both ways.

The recruiter offered a position in a place similar to wherethe current position was moving to, and when I explained why that would not work, countered with another similar one.

@not-xkcd While I agree that languages can be learned, it's poor hiring and recruiting to seek out people with no experience in them at all for a mid to senior role. You are setting the company back with more time for training and likely you are taking a higher risk letting that dev loose on your code. As for entry level, I think it's fine to hire those with little to no experience and mold them. But a developer already attached to languages and habits is going to be harder to transform.

Respectfully, I disagree.

An experienced polyglot can be taught a new language on the job. Even if you know the same language, coming into an established code base will have a ramp up time of anywhere between 3 months and a year, depending on how extensive the code base is. Additionally, many paradigms and design patterns carry over from language to language.

@not-xkcd Fair enough, I can see your point. I just find my frustrations in this particular situation to be lazy recruiters who spam LinkedIn, with no real intention but to get a hit. Much different than an employer who recognizes a developer's strengths and how they can mold them to work in their company.