Well, I experienced a reverse ewww when I was interviewing at Amazon for an Imdb job. As soon as I mentioned that my previous employer used PHP, I had a very short and quite frank answer: Oh, what for? PHP is such a bad language. So bad, that nobody should use it.
I was kind of floored since I didn't exude a fan-boy mentality, I was simply answering the questions. That was more of an inner chuckle, but I wasn't surprised by his answer at the end of the day. By the time the interviews ended, I realized that PHP might be the last thing these guys will look at.
Coincidentally, I took another offer where the core is PHP + Symfony + Doctrine. I was very impressed at how well behaved, structured and developer friendly a good source base can be, no matter the language.
I was kind of floored since I didn't exude a fan-boy mentality, I was simply answering the questions. That was more of an inner chuckle, but I wasn't surprised by his answer at the end of the day. By the time the interviews ended, I realized that PHP might be the last thing these guys will look at.
Coincidentally, I took another offer where the core is PHP + Symfony + Doctrine. I was very impressed at how well behaved, structured and developer friendly a good source base can be, no matter the language.