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by chockchocschoir 1562 days ago
> Despite all of this my biggest learning about performance is that mentioning performance during job interviews shows that you are incompatible with other JavaScript developers and will not be hired.

As someone who done plenty of JS, cares about performance and also has handled hiring for JS positions in the past, I can tell you that this is generally not true. Caring about performance is not a reason to not get hired.

But it is possible to be "technically superior" in every conceivable way, but still not be a good hire. Why? Because the candidate might be missing vital soft skills or even not be very good at describing their thoughts, something that can slow down an entire team.

"Learning the wrong lesson" when things go wrong would also be something I'd consider high up for reasons to reject a candidate.
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austincheney 1562 days ago
I have been doing web work for over 20 years. Everybody claims to care about performance, training, security, and so forth. The only thing that really matters in practice is comfort. Until developers are willing to abandon certain areas of comfort things like performance are only given lip service. In doesn’t matter what they want if they are actively working in opposition. This is performance is a massive incompatibility to hiring.
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chockchocschoir 1562 days ago
> In doesn’t matter what they want if they are actively working in opposition. This is performance is a massive incompatibility to hiring.

No one is working towards degrading performance on purpose, and caring about performance is not "a massive incompatibility to hiring". But the fact that you keep stating this makes it clear that there seems to be plenty of other reasons organizations are not hiring you.

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austincheney 1562 days ago
> No one is working towards degrading performance on purpose

You are not participating in the same interviews that I am then. Most developers know querySelectors, for example, are super slow. They will fight to death to retain them and anybody who suggests any alternative is not compatible for hiring. If they know its slow and deliberately choose to avoid faster alternatives how is that not degrading performance on purpose? How is that not common?

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