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I might be atypical, for sure. I've moved through Java, Go, Python, c++ and recently to Scala now, with no contacts at any of the companies I've applied to, but hopefully good references in each case. I've only been a dev for 7-ish years and had 3 separate jobs in that time. Youth might have given me some leniency in the first moves, but maybe less so in the latest one.

Im from a small country, so it might just be that the developers have a stronger hand at the negotiation table than elsewhere, since there're fewer competent devs as a result.

In any case, as a programmer I feel like I would always hire someone that demonstrates good programming skills in the "wrong language" over someone who's mediocre in the "right language", so it's sad to hear that's not the case many places. And that might be a lesson I should keep in the back of my mind as well.




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