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by t6jvcereio 1410 days ago
> For example, if I want to hire someone with 10+ years of experience who’s going to work on a complicated go api, I’ll get resumes from candidates who have <2 years of experience, but have written some go. I won't necessarily see the developer with 15+ years of C++ experience who would probably be a much better fit.

Well yeah. C++ developers with 15+ years experience don't want anything to do with go (for good reasons) and you probably can't afford them anyway.
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piinecone 1410 days ago
I am the author of this blog post and also a C++ developer with more than 15 years of experience, who hires people like myself, and writes go when it makes sense.

> For example, if I want to hire someone ...

It's just a contrived example to demonstrate the (mostly) poor matching I see at the point of attracting developers.

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