This is scary to me because of the similarity to HR drone-speak.
"oh, we need a candidate who has written blub on corporate blub platform X instead of corporate blub platform Y. thanks for your interest."
The worst part is that this hypothetical candidate has worked on and been successful at wildly different tech pieces.
If I was this candidate, I would expect to come to an interview at a startup and talk about each of those different experiences. I would frame the discussion around each different project and what aspects of these projects translated to how I could contribute to the startup. Did I have to learn new approaches? Did I create an API? Did I mentor and train other devs? How did I get up to speed on "hard-core backend optimization for fast retrieval of large data sets" in Bing after working on Visual Studio?
"oh, we need a candidate who has written blub on corporate blub platform X instead of corporate blub platform Y. thanks for your interest."
The worst part is that this hypothetical candidate has worked on and been successful at wildly different tech pieces.
If I was this candidate, I would expect to come to an interview at a startup and talk about each of those different experiences. I would frame the discussion around each different project and what aspects of these projects translated to how I could contribute to the startup. Did I have to learn new approaches? Did I create an API? Did I mentor and train other devs? How did I get up to speed on "hard-core backend optimization for fast retrieval of large data sets" in Bing after working on Visual Studio?