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Lately I've learned to panic whenever a job candidate starts dropping Docker and Kubernetes in the interview.

Maybe if they think it's a one-stop solution to hosting problems, yeah. But penalizing candidates just for familiarity with new technology?

The issue is more on people dropping buzzwords rather than what they're actually doing it for.

In my opinion, that's entirely the wrong mentality. If someone gave me a pile of raw buzzwords, or told me they used entirely the wrong tool because of buzzwords, then I'd penalize them, sure.

But say they made something wonderful, and it was cleaner and more efficient because of their use of Docker/Kubernetes, and they had taken the time to figure out the tradeoffs inherent to that approach. Is that worth penalizing, from your point of view?

Of course not. My issue is with leading with the tool, rather than the problem it's solving.

That's odd criteria.

Mind passing those resumes this way?

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