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by willsmith72 1045 days ago
What are you hiring for? JavaScript doesn't just mean frontend.

I am much more interested in how people pick up new tech and interesting projects than the specifics of the language. With modern libraries and frameworks I don't think you need deep experts in particular languages anymore
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kristianp 1045 days ago
> JavaScript doesn't just mean frontend.

I would assume they know that. There are plenty of projects that don't have nodejs backends.

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willsmith72 1045 days ago
> I do believe getting real-world backend experience greatly increases your value

This would imply they don't or they don't value it nearly as much

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bwh2 1044 days ago
Agreed. That was the point of my comment - there is an abundance of developers who just work in JS/TS/React and have not picked up new technologies. Adding C#, Java, SQL, etc. helps your marketability.
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