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by dvcrn 3435 days ago
I'm glad that the trend is slowly going towards hiring generally smart people instead of a "PHP/Rails/Python programmer". I'd say, better hire people that can easily adapt something new if needed rather than saying "I am a PHP programmer, I don't want to do this new project in Ruby." (I met my good share of people in previous companies thinking in that way to the extend that they would quit if asked to write in something else than what they were hired for)

In my current company they were looking for a Go programmer. I never wrote a single line Go before, yet they hired me and now I am writing Go. Then we had a deficit in the iOS team, so I learned Swift and now work on our app.