Ravisankar: Startups need stack-specific developers while big firms hire generalists
Vivek Ravisankar · Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator · Mar 30, 2018 · at 31:07
Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of HackerRank, explains how training constraints lead startups to hire stack specialists over generalists.
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“And also one of the things that was present in the survey was how you wanted to dive in deeper on the knowledge of that particular stack, at least for a startup because of course you have very low or pretty much no bandwidth to train somebody on the new stack that you're working on versus a large company where you have a little more bandwidth to go ahead and train. So you're okay with a generalist who can come and learn a new language versus in a startup. I like you to know the particular language or the stack before you come in.”
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