Ask HN: Why do startups try to hire for more specific skills?
It seems like when large companies (like Google) are hiring software engineers they mainly look for generalists that don't necessarily have experience with any specific technology (like Rails or PHP). But startups tend to look for people with specific skills.<p>Why is that? Are startups potentially missing out on hires that are dissuaded from applying by the overly specific requirements? After all, most web programming is fairly similar, and it doesn't take all that long to get up to speed with a different framework.