This is something that I have always suspected at some level.
I think wrong experience isn't bad as long as you are willing to be convinced otherwise. For me, the pain kicks in when someone with the wrong experience is not open to alternatives.
Unfortunately, the true willingness of a candidate to entertain alternatives is not something you discover until many weeks/months into the real deal.
As a consequence, resumes with very little technical matter in them have been appealing to me far more than those loaded up with framework-of-the-week and "best practices" word salads.
I think wrong experience isn't bad as long as you are willing to be convinced otherwise. For me, the pain kicks in when someone with the wrong experience is not open to alternatives.
Unfortunately, the true willingness of a candidate to entertain alternatives is not something you discover until many weeks/months into the real deal.
As a consequence, resumes with very little technical matter in them have been appealing to me far more than those loaded up with framework-of-the-week and "best practices" word salads.