Thread by @sarah_federman

Unpopular opinion: you can expect candidates to have a well-rounded skillset (strong competence with JS) without devaluing HTML and CSS skills

I'm sorry but the days of hiring people who can only do HTML and CSS are over. We need people who are good at them, yes. But they also need to be excellent at design or engineering as well.

I used to be that person and get so angry that people didn't want to hire me. But I wouldn't hire past me today. I would hire current me, who put in the time to learn JS and specialize in a11y, and can still scale CSS (as successfully as one can) across a suite of products.

Thanks to Adobe for giving me that chance to round myself out from a designer who doesn't want to design but isn't quite good enough to be an engineer to an engineer with a background in design ;)