Ask HN: How do you pivot your career when jobs want years of exp in a stack
I treat the &quot;we want people who know stack X&quot; kind of thing as a &quot;Here&#x27;s what stack we are using&quot; and nothing more.  I don&#x27;t lie and say that I know the stack, but I don&#x27;t want to work for a company that doesn&#x27;t understand that a good programmer can switch to a new stack in a very short time frame.  On the other hand, you need the ability to pick up a new stack easily.