Can confirm. I have 12 years+ experience in Python and applied to the Senior Software Engineer (Golang) job a few weeks ago as I wanted to develop my Go skills more. Vacancy states "Proficiency with Go or another backend language (and willing to switch to Go);" and requests 4 years of experience. I got autorejected.
I thought about applying when I saw this post last month. Cool product and interesting stack. But few things were a deal-breaker for me:
- no ability to work less than 40 hours
- very little room to work remotely
Overall the vibe of your FAQ page was a bit off-putting to me. Giving this as honest feedback, if you continue to struggle to fill this position, those are things you might want to have a second look at.
Speaking from my personal perspective here: I find it very useful to have quick feedback cycles. I can quickly hack something together, walk downstairs and immediately run it on a real robot. Totally appreciate that on-site isn't for everyone, but I don't think we could build what we are building while remote.
This is true. Because we're such a small country, dubbing isn't viable (adding subtitles is cheaper). And I'm glad for it, because I can't stand dubbed things, but that might just be because I'm not so used to it.
This will make land ownership harder, which is a regressive measure and will further income inequality. Land and home-ownership represent significant steps towards generational wealth, because when you are paying off a mortgage you own the home while in the case of a lease you own nothing.
Literally, this you are advocating economic policy from the Ancien Régime.
> most of my regex-fu entails building a regex relatively close to what I want and then repeatedly throwing it at a local instance of RegExper and test strings until I have something which accomplishes what I'm looking for it to do.
> I'd definitely fall outside the "true regex superheroes" category.
I think you just gave the definition of "true regex superhero". Best regex programmers I know have a similar workflow.
Regarding #3, I feel you. I haven't accepted it yet myself, although it's probably better for my state of mind if I did. Hope can be a damaging thing if it's never met.
