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You’d be surprised at the amount of people at Microsoft that their entire career have been at Microsoft (pre-git-creation) that never used Git. Git is relatively new (2005) but source control systems are not.

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That's still two decades. Git is so popular Microsoft bought one of the major forges 7 years ago.

To have never touched it in the last decade? You've got a gap in your CV.

Not everyone wants to code for hobby, so if their work not uses git then they too will not use it.

Not everyone _can_ code as a hobby. Some of us are old and have families and other commitments

That's when you can only hope that your workplace is one that trains - so the investment isn't one sided.

Agreed. In my professional career, the vast majority of devs I've worked with never wrote a single line of code outside of the office.

The same could be said of .NET, Wordpress, or Docker.

Yes? If its in your field, like a webdev who has never touched Wordpress, it can be surprising. An automated tester who has never tried containers also has a problem.

These are young industries. So most hiring teams expect that you take the time to learn new technologies as they become established.

This is one of the problems at big tech - people 10-20 years in and haven't lived in the outside world. It's a hard problem to solve.

I believe it. If you are a die-hard Microsoft person, your view of computing would be radically different from even the average developer today, let alone devs who are used to using FOSS.

Turn it around: If I were to apply for a job at Microsoft, they would probably find that my not using Windows for over twenty years is a gap on my CV (not one I would care to fill, mind).

It would very much depend on the team. There's no shortage of those that ship products for macOS and Linux, and sometimes that can even be the dominant platform.

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