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> I've used it to get shit done and make a company money, everything else is fluff.

I find it so frustrating how hard this is to sell in an interview. I understand how important it is to avoid bad hires, but I'm a self-taught web developer so I just flat out don't know a lot of CS "basics". I've been a professional SWE for 5 years, have made all of my teams very happy, have accomplished some very good work, and have dug into the docs enough to get the most out of the many tools/libraries I've had to use.

But, sometimes there's a coding challenge on a topic I've just never seen before, and I'm dropped. As unrealistic as it is, I wish interviews had options for demonstrating my ability to learn a new tool quickly and make use of it. I'd spend a work day taking on a mock ticket for some new security procedure I've never touched before if it showed them that I can actually get the job done.