[donw]

Pivotal expects this as a matter of course.

The interview involves full-time pairing for a day, and you (probably) won't know one of the programming languages.

Pivotal does full-time pairing, and an experienced pairs should expected to pick up languages from new teams on-the-fly. After all, the rest of the team knows the language, and you'll get constant real-time mentorship as part of daily rotations.

This is perhaps the thing that sold me on full-time pairing: you can join a team, not even know the programming language, and contribute value to your team from day one.

[armandososa]

As an introvert working alone and remote for 13 years, full-time pairing sounds like a nightmare.