I suppose it boils down to recruitment being a numbers game, and what I've observed in people who have come from different backgrounds. My main idea with a job ad is to create as good an initial filter as I can. It's very easy to get snowed by dozens of responses that are of very low value.
Now, if someone happened to start their life writing COBOL on 3270s, but then switched into web technologies as they emerged and never looked back I'm not going to refuse to consider them, and I guess I'm hoping that such a person would (now) consider themselves to be a "webstack native" and they'd apply regardless of what I said about those being their first languages. But honestly I'd rather miss out on that one person applying than be hit with dozens of ex-mainframe programmers who are all dipping their toes in web because their mainstay has dried up. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Misha Manulis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jason, > > I noticed on your job description you have this line: > > > - You’re a webstack native, HTML, CSS & JS were your first languages > > > Why is this important? I'm genuinely asking, not trolling here. > > Is there really an advantage of someone who learned how to program in the > "webstack" you describe vs someone who's been programming in other > languages and moved to the web. Does it matter if someone started out as a > back-end engineer and then learned front-end development? > > I'm asking as I've seen this stated a few times now, so would like to > understand the reasoning behind it. > > Thanks, > > Misha > > On Friday, July 19, 2013 11:51:31 AM UTC-7, Jason King wrote: >> >> GH ad says it all, love to get another list person on our team: >> >> https://jobs.github.com/**positions/27617604-52ae-11e1-** >> 9a83-c8f6e276d9b5<https://jobs.github.com/positions/27617604-52ae-11e1-9a83-c8f6e276d9b5> >> > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
