I was interviewing for a senior software engineer position at a startup company. After clearing 2 coding and one behavioral. During the final interview with the CTO, they inquired about my proficiency in Go. I explained that although I haven’t worked extensively with Go, but with Java and Python. I mentioned that once you understand the basics of one language, learning another becomes somewhat easier. However, the CTO pointed out that Go isn’t just any regular language like Java or Python. 😅 Unfortunately, we didn’t proceed further as I was not proficient in Go lang. YOE: 3.5 TC: ~190k
The CTO is a moron. Not once in my career as an IC or Manager have I ever thought that mastery of language X was the key difference between someone being a giid engineer or a bad one. I went from zero to Go over the holiday break (backend API and DB for a mobile app) with just Google and Copilot.
I guarantee that guy couldn't code in go.
Go is so easy to learn too
I noticed this about startups, they tend to care more about what tools you know more than bigger companies. But I feel like startups will miss a lot of bright candidates because of this.
I'm a VP Eng at a startup, and I'm constantly fighting the CTO on this. It's so frustrating to pass on a good candidate because they're not a Python expert. Meanwhile, the Python codebase created by our experts (before I joined) is a steaming pile of crap.
I never understood why companies are so fixated in hiring language or framework experts. I see this often with React.js. it's not hard picking up a new language or framework. Plenty of online crash course or reading official doc walkthroughs.
go is not similar to java or python. it’s also not hard. don’t know what else to tell you other than you dodged a bullet
It is though
it is what? similar? you must not know either of them well i guess
Glad you didn’t join that company. Would’ve been wasting your brain cells dealing with incompetent morons like that. I worked with Go at a previous company and it is an easy language to learn and use. The CTO acts as if it’s so hard to move from one language to another. The basics and core can be learned as with anything in life and obviously so if you’ve managed to get to this point in life. I wish you better luck from the company side as apparently that’s more of a worry than your skills. I’m sure you’ll do fine wherever you go. Best
next time tell them “just say you can’t afford to pay me what I’m worth and GO” lol
You dodged a bullet bigtime. Go is such a simple language to learn. You can become reasonably proficient with it in a few days IMO.
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If Go was that important, why didn't they ask you about it when they first contacted you. They wasted everybody's time. This is just stupid.