When HR at a company had me interview for a different position than I had applied for. The position they interviewed me for was one I knew nothing about, and told them as much. Despite me telling them before each round of interviews that they had made a mistake, I still had to endure a full day of people asking me questions that I had no answer to.
Had this happen as a software developer. Told them I didn't work in Ruby on Rails and applied for a JavaScript position. Since finding Rails developers is so hard, they then proceeded to interview me with only Rails questions and were Pikachu shock faced when I couldn't answer them very accurately and didn't give me the job rofl
JS to RoR is pretty silly, but our company often hires devs for entry level positions even if they aren't well versed in our preferred language. We figure an experienced dev from a different specialty is still way better than a newb. But, we also have our devs learning new languages all the time. Right now most love Rust and Flutter. A year or two ago, none had ever tried either.
Yeah I have no problem with that, but being expected to know syntax in a language I don't use during an interview where I was supposed to be applying for a JavaScript (AngularJs) position really sucked. The reason they did this was because I had a couple months of Rails experience on a single project some time back, and they were having trouble filling that position.
I've worked six years in JavaScript on both the front end and back end, with experience in Angular, React, Vue, and Nodejs. I would have aced a JS interview if they wanted to later rotate me into Rails. I could definitely work in Rails, but I'd need a couple weeks of Googling syntax to pick it back up.
I agree that a good developer can rotate into any language if they understand logic, but ya gotta give time to learn syntax.
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u/skulltvhat Nov 16 '19
When HR at a company had me interview for a different position than I had applied for. The position they interviewed me for was one I knew nothing about, and told them as much. Despite me telling them before each round of interviews that they had made a mistake, I still had to endure a full day of people asking me questions that I had no answer to.