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Re:Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs by mdwrigh2 on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @11:03AM (#6963233)
> An excellent Java developer can suck at a Python house and vice-versa (probably will suck less, but still).

I've yet to meet an excellent developer who was only excellent in his language of choice. In my experience at least, almost all of the talents that make an A player an A transcend whatever language they're using and has far more to do with their ability to reason and hold an entire system in their head.

Re:Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs by vonmoltke on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @11:41AM (#6963341)
Then why do nearly all of the "A-player" organizations still require X years of language/framework-specific experience in their job postings?