I'm sorry, I just remembered the few .NET maxis I've shared hours with and tried to extrapolate a whole company full of them. I'm sure they must work great with each other.

Which I guess was the whole premise of the .NET ecosystem, so score one for Redmond, I guess!

Apropos, what do they do for fun? I'll probably never meet 100 .NET devs in my life so honest question.

> Apropos, what do they do for fun?

Odd question, but as a .NET developer myself

Mountaineering, climbing, bouldering, going to gigs, playing pool, running, music festivals, gaming, photography, watching F1, watching NBA, eating out with friends...

I'm not sure what the point of the question was ?

Ah, well, obviously the point of the question was to be odd for oddness's sake, as some form of bizarre, self-inflatory social ploy!

I couldn't possibly have intended my question as a straightforward request for information about something, now could I?

That would just be weirdy-weird, if people started asking each other questions for the purpose of receiving answers.

Thanks for answering though.

The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen any correlation between someones hobbies outside of work and what tech stack they use at work.

That's OK. I keep seeing a correlation between people's proneness to be like

>The reason I thought it was odd was that I've never seen [it]

and which tech stacks they feel more comfortable with.

> what do they do for fun?

Play in a band, ride bikes, play video games. Sample size of one.

>Play in a band

Cool, what genre?

Rock mostly covers. I play keyboard. Trying to learn to sing. Progress is mixed.

As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS).

For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in general, but almost zero that meet our standards. For Python roles we get way fewer applicants, but the average quality is much much higher than the .NET average. (JS is a whole other thing, and we frankly aren't as good at hiring there yet)

Do you measure that standard by leetcode?

No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the syntax, nevermind the "why" of things (even WHY you need StringBuilder) or what a database index is, etc.

Interesting. One would thing, "script kiddies" would be more common among Pythonistas. On the other hand, .NET might be more user-friendly, so that devs are productive even without the knowledge of what's going on under the hood. Kudos for the interview practices, that's similar to how I conduct as well :)