[Aeolun]

I can tell you right now that I do not want to hire the people that show up to my interview without checking at least some of the boxes, guts or no.

It’s a (senior) programming job, why are you here if you have barely 2 months of experience...?

[penagwin]

For sure you need them to for sure meet certain requirements.

My current job was listed as full time (Entry/mid level) but I'm a student and in my phone interview told them that - guess they wanted me anyway. My biggest value IMO is that I've dabbled with a lot of stuff. Okay I haven't worked on a personal project in Django, but I'm at the point where the exact language/framework is semi-irrelavant. I was confident I could, and was able to be semi-fluent with Django for example in a few weeks (only 25 hours a week).

My point is that what GP is trying to say is more about "Oh we listed postgres but they've only used mysql" if the person is motivated they should have no issues picking up postgres

[heavenlyblue]

They shouldn’t have listed a database if they don’t require a specific vendor of DB for operation.

Jusging by what you are saying you’d probably have a problem telling the two apart, while they will have many differences when run at scale.