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Total bullshit. When you've got decades of experience shipping products in multiple languages, there's no reason to get sidelined with the "but you don't know the language" B.S. if you know something comparable, which C# totally is! If you're not trying to totally cut new "green field" code on your own, but are working in a team with other experienced, responsible developers and doing pull req's with decent code reviews, you'll get all the Python you need to become effective in the first two weeks (honestly, probably less).
Sounds like a nice potential flavor of age discrimination, if you ask me... -
@wackOverflow if they had put some in front of me I’m sure I could’ve told them what it was doing. They never even mentioned it 😡
Another day, another company that doesn’t live up to its own hype.
This time interviewing for a company that only want people who are willing to start with the language they currently know but learn other programming languages and not shy away from new things.
Brilliant, I’m up for that. I love learning and want to be at a place that values learning. I’ve got 20+ years of experience and I’ve learnt all sorts in that time to stay relevant. Currently I’m a c# dev, but I’ve worked on projects using JavaScript & Typescript, Angular, React etc. Done front end and back end, taught myself mongo and architecture. Point is that I have a proven track record of learning.
To cut a long story short, they give me a .net test. Nothing special about it. I have a 4 hour chat. And a week later I’m rejected because I don’t do Python. WTF?!
I thought this place was all about allowing people to learn if they were willing, not about what they know right now. I’m calling bullshit.
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