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No, it’s reasonable. If your team uses Git then it’s a valid question to establish if someone has only worked with Perforce.

They didn’t say how heavily they weight the question.

(All that said I expect that, soon, experience with the appropriate LLM tooling will be as important as having experience with the language your system is implemented in.)

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Right, but using git is a team wide thing.

I can’t use perforce while my company is on git.

But if I do or do not use an LLM to assist me while coding, my team is unaffected.

If someone liked jetbrains, but your team used neovim, would you force them to use neovim?

Editors may also be a team decision in some places. Some teams are using features unique to one IDE, for example.

it can be a team decision, but it's a bad one

Then that tooling is required, like visual studio is a common one I know about in windows land.

Though nobody should care if I edited my text files with neovim as long as I still used the same toolchain as everyone else.

You hire people based on their fundamental knowledge and the ability to learn, not skills in arbitrary tools and frameworks which come and go every other day. If someone has used Perforce they will be able to get perfectly comfortable with Git by the end of their first week. So not knowing Git is an idiotic reason to reject a skilled developer. Same with programming languages, and just about every other aspect of software development.

I don't really test any specific tools or frameworks, what i'm using has changed twice just in the last year. More so, I just want to hear that the candidate has some knowledge of what the current models can do well, what they can't do, and how they're integrating it. Whether you're copying pasting code or using something like cursor is not what i'm concerned about.

Yeah, but it's oh so easy to test for, and oh so nice to have plenty of boxes checked to cover your ass if the hire goes wrong.

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