GeneralTable-stakes
Tech Stack
Also written as Stack
The combination of programming languages, frameworks, and tools used to build a particular product.
Think of it like
Like the specific combination of ingredients and equipment a restaurant's kitchen is built around — swap out the pieces and you'd cook a bit differently.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Lists their tech stack as a set of nouns with no opinion attached.
Senior sounds like
Can walk through it and say which piece they'd change if they could.
Ask them
“Walk me through your current tech stack, and which piece of it you'd change if you could.”