[taotau]

I've always found the focus on 'languages' in hiring to be a bit odd, and perhaps a hangover from olden times.

Any programmer with enough experience can become competent in any programming dialect fairly quickly. But it's the level of knowledge of specific frameworks relevant to projects that is what we really should be a measure of competence.

Having gone through the job hunting process recently i did find this a bit frustrating.

Ok, you want a 'JavaScript' developer... Thats like walking into a restaurant and saying 'I'll have some food please'. At least some places made the distinction of throwing in React or Vue or Angular somewhere in the posting. Sometimes all three!

What does it mean to have X years experience in node ? I use npm all the time, does that count ? I assume they mean the express framework or it's cousins, but almost no job listing mentioning node spelled that out.

Same applies to Java - probably the most widely varied language in terms of use cases and contexts. I've built some web stuff in Spring and Hibernate but I know nothing about its use in embedded systems.

[aoleinik]

While I believe this is true for most “high level languages” (JS, TS, Java, Python etc.) I think when you’re doing low level languages like Rust and C/C++ you really need to hire for those languages