What do you think about applying (or hiring) applicants who have experience but not in the specific stack of the job? I’ve found jobs in fields I’m passionate about, but I don’t always have matching experience in the stack. Does YOE matter more than stack or is stack experience quintessential?
Ex: 5yrs experience in C++ but the job asks for 5yrs experience and Node.js
I hire developers with mismatched experience all the time - with a couple of guiding principles:
Oh and, please do apply. If you make a good impression and aren’t the team member I need next, I might know someone who does. You want to always be networking.
And any manager who makes you feel bad for applying for a mismatched job is an asshole and trust me, that person’s peers (like me) are aware of it and it is limiting their career progress. I just don’t like them enough to even tell them so.
Edit: Answering a question below, my team is fully remote, though we have do have limitations around country citizenship for certain roles.