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Comment on Ask HN: Apply to dev jobs with little experience of the language required?

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Depends. Startups likely will not have the flexibility to allow for R&D. Large companies likely will have the financial flexibility for R&D, and will expect you to publish/share your discoveries.

There's also all sorts of circumstantial conditions for which anyone would hire you, for instance, if you have a radically unique background that no one could possibly let walk out the door.

So unique experience may trump skill requirements, just need to make it clear how it can benifit them, thanks

Indeed. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science, you can leverage that. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science within a tech stack that aligns with the [EDIT: company in question], all the more power to you and the likelihood that they will want to hear what you have to say as an expert on the subject.

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