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Re:Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-... by TrevorJ on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:26PM (#29151681)
It depends. There are people who's core skill is that they are amazing at learning generalizable lessons about approaching new terrain. They have a toolkit of methods that allow them to move into new territory and quickly gain competency, while avoiding most of the 'newbie' mistakes (or making them on the weekend on their own time).

Other people excel at going deep on specificity. They know every detail and arcane quirk about THIS specific language/build system/toolchain.

Both of these traits are desirable, but they will be great at slightly different things and under slightly different circumstances.

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Re:Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-... by ModernMech on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:17PM (#29152318)
> while avoiding most of the 'newbie' mistakes (or making them on the weekend on their own time).

Why would one wait to make mistakes on their own time?

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Re:Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-... by TrevorJ on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:09PM (#29152965)
Well, let me clarify. It's not something that employers should expect from employees.

But it is a trait I notice in a lot of highly competent folk who are high achievers. They'll see something coming on the roadmap that they feel like they want to prep/educate themselves on, and then they will noodle on it for an hour or two when they get a chance. By the time it comes time to implement it 'for real', they have already gotten most of the learning curve out of the way.

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