Recruiting for privilege
I have always been of the opinion that if someone is hiring me to do a particular job, it is incumbent upon me to show up with the skills and knowledge I need to do that job well -- at least the skills and knowledge that are not specific to their own organization. If they hire me to work with a particular language I don&#x27;t have any experience with, I&#x27;m not going to sit at my desk on their time reading a book and doing Hello World programs. I&#x27;ll spend my own time getting ramped up in the language as quickly as I can.<p>In my long experience, the best developers I&#x27;ve encountered have had basically the same attitude.