Being Too Language Focused: When recruiters at some of the top tech companies see resumes that list every flavor of Java on their resume, they make negative assumptions about the caliber of candidate. There is a belief in many circles that the best software engineers don't define themselves around a particular language. Thus, when they see a candidate seems to flaunt which specific versions of a language they know, recruiters will often bucket the candidate as "not our kind of person:' Note that this does not mean that you should necessarily take this "language flaunting" off your resume. You need to understand what that company values. Some companies do value this.
Knowing Only One or Two Languages: The more time you've spent coding, the more things you'vebuilt, the more languages you will have tended to work with. The assumption then, when they see aresume with only one language, is that you haven't experienced very many problems. They also oftenworry that candidates with only one or two languages will have trouble learning new technologies (whyhasn't the candidate learned more things?) or will just feel too tied with a specific technology (potentially not using the best language for the task)
Being Too Language Focused: When recruiters at some of the top tech companies see resumes that list every flavor of Java on their resume, they make negative assumptions about the caliber of candidate. There is a belief in many circles that the best software engineers don't define themselves around a particular language. Thus, when they see a candidate seems to flaunt which specific versions of a language they know, recruiters will often bucket the candidate as "not our kind of person:' Note that this does not mean that you should necessarily take this "language flaunting" off your resume. You need to understand what that company values. Some companies do value this.
Knowing Only One or Two Languages: The more time you've spent coding, the more things you'vebuilt, the more languages you will have tended to work with. The assumption then, when they see aresume with only one language, is that you haven't experienced very many problems. They also oftenworry that candidates with only one or two languages will have trouble learning new technologies (whyhasn't the candidate learned more things?) or will just feel too tied with a specific technology (potentially not using the best language for the task)
Being Too Language Focused: When recruiters at some of the top tech companies see resumes that list every flavor of Java on their resume, they make negative assumptions about the caliber of candidate. There is a belief in many circles that the best software engineers don't define themselves around a particular language. Thus, when they see a candidate seems to flaunt which specific versions of a language they know, recruiters will often bucket the candidate as "not our kind of person:' Note that this does not mean that you should necessarily take this "language flaunting" off your resume. You need to understand what that company values. Some companies do value this.
Knowing Only One or Two Languages: The more time you've spent coding, the more things you'vebuilt, the more languages you will have tended to work with. The assumption then, when they see aresume with only one language, is that you haven't experienced very many problems. They also oftenworry that candidates with only one or two languages will have trouble learning new technologies (whyhasn't the candidate learned more things?) or will just feel too tied with a specific technology (potentially not using the best language for the task)
Being Too Language Focused: When recruiters at some of the top tech companies see resumes that list every flavor of Java on their resume, they make negative assumptions about the caliber of candidate. There is a belief in many circles that the best software engineers don't define themselves around a particular language. Thus, when they see a candidate seems to flaunt which specific versions of a language they know, recruiters will often bucket the candidate as "not our kind of person:' Note that this does not mean that you should necessarily take this "language flaunting" off your resume. You need to understand what that company values. Some companies do value this.
Knowing Only One or Two Languages: The more time you've spent coding, the more things you'vebuilt, the more languages you will have tended to work with. The assumption then, when they see aresume with only one language, is that you haven't experienced very many problems. They also oftenworry that candidates with only one or two languages will have trouble learning new technologies (whyhasn't the candidate learned more things?) or will just feel too tied with a specific technology (potentially not using the best language for the task)