UK Recruitment Glossary
Tech Stack
In recruiter context
Stack-matching is brutal in technical hiring. A Java engineer applying to a Python role will lose to a Python engineer of similar level, almost every time, because the cost of retraining is real. If you want to switch stacks, build something tangible in the new stack first — a side project, a course completion, a contribution. Stack matters more than years experience for the first round of filtering.
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