{"by":"eswangren","dead":true,"id":5495213,"parent":5493953,"text":"Another senior engineer here who weighs in on hiring decisions.

Based upon your self description, no, I would not. You sound to me like a beginner-intermediate level programmer who loves what he is doing, but is under the impression that cool new languages and frameworks are the most exciting thing he can experience. They are not. Note that this is still my impression even after reading your \"I'm a fast learner...\" paragraph.

You may very well be highly gifted, but how can I know that? Nowhere in your description do you discuss what sort of problems you have solved or and what sort of problems you would like to solve. Solving problems is #1. What language/framework/API you use to do it should flow naturally from the problem domain.

I don't care if you know C/C#/Ruby/whatever. Sure, knowing the technology stack that we are using (or plan to use) is a big bonus, but it is not up there at the top of my list of hiring criteria. I want to know if you can solve problems. I want to know how you think. Any engineer worth their salt can learn the latest language or framework, that doesn't interest me. What does interest me is know that, if we have a difficult problem to solve, I am going to be able to get you next to a whiteboard to help me figure it out.

Don't take this as an insult; everyone starts somewhere. This stage is a natural progression in your development as an engineer. I was there once, as was everyone else. However, per your own description, you sound like a glue programmer to me, not an engineer. I want to know if I can rely on you to solve hard problems, regardless of whether the best language for the job is C or JavaScript.

EDIT: Just saw your comment here:

    *IMO, time I spend at work is wasted, because it is so unrelated to the technologies I want to work with*\n

\nWell, that is exactly the reason I would not hire you as-is. That is the impression I had initially and that sentence only reinforces that impression, regardless of your statement in the \"I am a fast learner...\" paragraph.","time":1365108384,"type":"comment"}