Very disappointed in the interview process for their recent C++ vacancy in Dundalk. Recruiter was pleasant, but backtracked on the call once they realised I hadn't formally studied Computer Science, as if to say "I appreciate you might be bilingual, but because you haven't studied the broad topic of Linguistics, I don't believe you will be a proficient Spanish translator". Given the role is language-specific, I find this stance absurd, as – whilst helpful from a conceptual point of view – knowing the likes of Java, C and Haskell from your time in university or working in those languages does not equate to being proficient in C++. I have one portfolio alone with tens of thousands of lines of C++ code exhibiting everything from fundamentals to advanced topics from C++11 onwards, and a repo dedicated to timing implementations of popular data structures and algorithms that I add to frequently to stay on top of best practices. These are aside from the projects I've created on the job both individually and collaboratively at the last multinational company I worked for. If you want to reject my application through an impartial assessment in the language you're hiring for then by all means, but not because you haven't read my CV and have a non-technical person following a questionably-binary hiring criteria. If anyone from the company reads this, you are welcome to reply, correct me if I've said anything out of turn, and / or make contact.