Ask HN: How important is having experience in specific technologies?

Re:Ask HN: How important is having experience in specific te... by davismwfl on Friday May 01, 2015 @07:49PM (#9475235)

A lot of companies are starting to hire for capability instead of experience in just the specific tech. But I can't imagine if you have no experience in their stack that there would be much interest from a company. Unless you have significant domain experience or the stack is very similar to what you have been working in.

So to answer your question, I don't think going after a RoR position would be worth your while given what you have said. But Angular vs Ember seems reasonable. e.g. framework switches aren't as critical to me as would be you having no experience in the core development language, depending on the situation of course.

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Re:Ask HN: How important is having experience in specific te... by Floog on Friday May 01, 2015 @09:50PM (#9475556)

I'm curious what about RoR vs Laravel makes it not worthwhile, while Angular vs Ember is?

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Re:Ask HN: How important is having experience in specific te... by davismwfl on Saturday May 02, 2015 @11:42AM (#9477444)

Actually fair point. In my mind I was thinking Ruby vs PHP more than RoR vs Laravel, as really those are just frameworks. I am glad you said something.

I saw a couple of other comments point out that the more experience you have the less this is an issue and I think that is also valid. I would just think if all your time has been in PHP, making the jump to Ruby might be tough, but making the jump to PHP with different frameworks is not nearly as hard. But again, it depends on the other skills and experience you bring to the table as to whether an employer would bet on you to make the leap from one core language to another.

* EDIT: Fixed spelling

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