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if you’re hiring senior and above the number of radically different technologies is extremely small.

what I mean is, a good Java dev will be able to code in Go in under a month.

A developer who knows MySQL will learn postgresql just fine.

I don’t tend to put much weight into specific technologies, more I try to figure out how exposed you've been to paradigms that are important (OOP, RDBMS).




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