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leksyib94517yWell, it's still better than some companies in Nigeria that requires a MSC for a junior developer position.
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leksyib94517yAnd most of the computer science students are retards so they end up being high school math teachers, so they end up hiring drop outs anywayπ
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badwolf3747ySince they've not mentioned time traveller, you should consider putting it on your resume
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8+ years of experience is retarded for any dev job, even if the technology has existed for longer.
I have 20 years of Javascript experience.
But it's not like ES6 even resembles livescript/ES262.
I'm a "decent enough" JS developer now, but not because of years. Javascript has always been a "side" thing for me — to learn mootools, jquery, underscore, backbone, ember, nodejs, angular, vue & react through the years? That has been more effort for me than for a fulltime frontend dev with 1 year experience... I have always paid attention to the JS scene with a bit of a halfassed attitude, because it's just not my thing.
In development, total years do say *something* of course.
But your very recent experience, the complexity of tasks you've worked on during the last 1-2 years... that says a whole lot more. -
@leksyib For a little bit actually did some "fullstack js" around 97/98... people think node was the first, but netscape server ssjs ran (non-concurrent, precompiled) javascript server pages. Suicide inducing. Much like php cgi scripts in the early days, except no debugging or logging, and excruciatingly slow.
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Since the destruction of Gallifrey in the Time War you just can't find people with more experience with a technology than it's been around for love nor money
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eggory4337yI saw something similar so I applied with my cover letter looking something like they ' pssst fuckwad all your applicants are lying to you... XXX hasn't even been around for ten years' not sure why but I didn't hear back
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I remember that the creator of React retweeted it saying that he didn't meet the requirements.
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@Gobbas Haha, but most teenage devs with 1-2 years of xp are better at it then me, was my point π
Time is not a valid unit for expressing skill, people might come from comparable languages, or just learn fast. That's why you see good companies asking for "You understand things like concurrency/async, memoizing closures, NodeJS lambdas, and could implement two way binding in the frontend without using a framework" or something like that. Some set of skills / knowledge points required for the job, which you can test during an interview.
But.. React's initial release was 2013.π
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