His language list is a bit specific imo. For good or bad many corporate applications are c# and Java. If web add JavaScript in there and if data or cloud add Python. All things being even between two candidates if your language skillset matches a project you’d be more likely to get hired. Wondering if this guy can broaden his languages to include one or two of the top 5 languages.
Unfortunately are not all about programming skills alone, working within flexibility of learning new skills, team politics and team structure can play a lot for candidate selection.
The main thing I’d say is don’t give up but use some of your free time to maybe diversify your skillset and apply for some other positions in those areas.
If he’s getting to the first round of technical interviews then it’s likely not a languages issue. That’s the round that many companies put you in front of a mid-level dev who arrogantly asks you a code-kata question and refuses to answer questions. It may be that he’s not inherently good at solving the toy box problems on the spot. That’s the issue I tend to have in these rounds.
Though I guess it could be a languages issue if the mid level dev doesn’t know the language you’re doing the problem in and marks you down for that.
His language list is a bit specific imo. For good or bad many corporate applications are c# and Java. If web add JavaScript in there and if data or cloud add Python. All things being even between two candidates if your language skillset matches a project you’d be more likely to get hired. Wondering if this guy can broaden his languages to include one or two of the top 5 languages.
Unfortunately are not all about programming skills alone, working within flexibility of learning new skills, team politics and team structure can play a lot for candidate selection.
The main thing I’d say is don’t give up but use some of your free time to maybe diversify your skillset and apply for some other positions in those areas.
If he’s getting to the first round of technical interviews then it’s likely not a languages issue. That’s the round that many companies put you in front of a mid-level dev who arrogantly asks you a code-kata question and refuses to answer questions. It may be that he’s not inherently good at solving the toy box problems on the spot. That’s the issue I tend to have in these rounds.
Though I guess it could be a languages issue if the mid level dev doesn’t know the language you’re doing the problem in and marks you down for that.