Experience Report: 6 months of Go

Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by cinntaile on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:35PM (#31218591)

> some European countries see it as a CV requirement by most HR departments when hiring for top management positions.

This sounds utterly bizarre, I have a very hard time believing this. Which countries would that be?

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Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by MereInterest on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:51PM (#31218722)

I can't confirm the specific example, but this sounds like a smoke cover for nepotism and/or classism. If you're not allowed to recruit solely from your personal friend group, requiring that applicants be able to speak a dead language let's you select that same group of people while giving a flimsy justification.

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Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by tptacek on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:19PM (#31218929)

So, just like strong idiosyncratic preferences for particular programming languages.

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Re:Experience Report: 6 months of Go by pjmlp on Saturday April 30, 2022 @05:03PM (#31219345)

In France for example, it used to be that all good family kids studied Latin, so high league universities and was seen as plus on the CV, at least for 20 years when I used to live there.

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