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Ah the cliche “I’m a hiring manager and I wouldn’t hire this person” comment.

I think you’ve not considered the reason behind the question and jumped to conclusions.

Eg if the say subversion and it’s a massively distributed team, the developer is not going to have a fun time. It isn’t a first class citizen when it comes to third party tools either. These are real issues.

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While that's true, there are work arounds. Github does support Subversion. Having found myself on a team (in the past) that was tied to an outdated version control solution (source safe), you can still use Git locally to facilitate branches, rebasing and most everything else. Thankfully that's a rare occurrence these days.

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/importing-your-projec...

I am ok with candidates asking questions.

And I am ok with managers filtering out people who ask questions.

From both perspectives, mission accomplished.

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