Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers

Re:Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-... by q-big on Monday November 08, 2021 @07:32PM (#29156226)

> Would it be a good idea to hire someone with 20 years experience in Python+Go+JavaScript+Perl+PHP for a C++ role?

I my experience, when working in a programming job, your programming skills rather degrade quite fast if you are not actively working in your free time to work hard against this degradation.

I rather get better in programming almost exclusively by the side projects that I do in my free time.

So, I would rather say that x years of job experience show nothing; what is important is what you do in your free time (if such side projects are possible).

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Re:Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-... by hiptobecubic on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:20AM (#29162850)

This depends hugely on your job. If you spend all day writing variations on the same crud app handlers then yeah, you probably aren't learning anything new after two years. If you spend twenty years in that job, you probably aren't the kind of person that wants to learn new things anyway.

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