Comment by oaiey

3 months ago

Can only confirm that. Such a smooth platform overall for web and API development. We use it with several 100 devs on it and the choice never failed us, neither in technology or hiring. And it is not that we have .NET gurus or anything.

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larrik  3 months ago

As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS).

For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in general, but almost zero that meet our standards. For Python roles we get way fewer applicants, but the average quality is much much higher than the .NET average. (JS is a whole other thing, and we frankly aren't as good at hiring there yet)

  • zerr  3 months ago

    Do you measure that standard by leetcode?

    • larrik  3 months ago

      No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the syntax, nevermind the "why" of things (even WHY you need StringBuilder) or what a database index is, etc.

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balamatom  3 months ago

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  • LandR  3 months ago

    > Apropos, what do they do for fun?

    Odd question, but as a .NET developer myself

    Mountaineering, climbing, bouldering, going to gigs, playing pool, running, music festivals, gaming, photography, watching F1, watching NBA, eating out with friends...

    I'm not sure what the point of the question was ?

    • balamatom  3 months ago

      Ah, well, obviously the point of the question was to be odd for oddness's sake, as some form of bizarre, self-inflatory social ploy!

      I couldn't possibly have intended my question as a straightforward request for information about something, now could I?

      That would just be weirdy-weird, if people started asking each other questions for the purpose of receiving answers.

      Thanks for answering though.

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