 If you smart enough person and have been into the software industry for quite a while you will most likely notice the ugliness of it and recognize the beauty of not-so-mainstream "experimental" languages and tools, some of them you might enjoy a lot. Is it a good idea to mention it on a mainstream-tech job interview straight ahead or is it better to act like you love the mainsteam (Java/NodeJS/PHP/Python (etc)) and think it's the best language/tool out there? 9 comments
 @shegeley I think it's best to be honest, but also not to decry the mainstream too much just because it's technically inferior to some other technology. So you can say you think Haskell is superior to Java (for instance, I jest), but that you appreciate the need to maintain, for example, Java applications and work with the limitations of the language (which you could then briefly elaborate). Your willingness, or otherwise, to work with the mainstream should be understood. Thanks for your adequacy. I'm just having big issues with my current workplace and don't know what to do. I'm just feeling kinda stuck and stupid about my current job + financial situation. On my current job I had kinda the same experience ("k, might be ugly, but we has to work on it, nothing matters") except tried to introduce to cljs [that can work on Node.js as a platform, so could be applied]. So, I crafted a demo of currently existing product of the company that was a prototype much smaller in code but with "bullet-proof' core functionality to my colleagues By some "pattern/general idea" of how should work. And, it first, the company stared to underpay me almost 1/3 part of what's supposed to be ~ 2 moths ago without saying a word. I do agree that there was a moment when I started working little less productive. That's cos my parent had a stage 4 cancer. Treatment started helped a little and I'am became better ~ 3 weeks ago when I only had a suspicion that I am underpaid. I started to search for jobs about 1 week ago. Despite I had a feeling that I should have started it before, but I just had so little energy when dealing with that all. So now I am in the situation when I don't know what's happening and just started to search for jobs "full throttle" ~ 10 days ago. @technicat not only that. I'm following some "tech career advisers YouTubers" and see that it became a competition to act across tech interviews "saying proper things that's the company wants to hear" to get and offer ASAP or stuff like this. But I feel such a disgust for this "style of conversation" that it's hard to hold it. Although it's sometimes even "mainstream developers" too to like one mainstream lang & work on another one. So, sometimes I meet a little understanding having to balance |
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@shegeley I think that, no matter the topic or the company, it's always the best idea to just be honest and open. Asking doesn't hurt (mostly), and if it does, it's probably not a good employer to begin with.
In your case, you can definitely say, for example, that you find Python ugly. The company will either say "We don't care, we need Python" (and then you'll decide if you want to proceed) or "We're open to the alternatives", at which point, you've won :)