Mostly a frontend web developer, but with some backend and mobile experience as well. Looking for an interesting development position where I can do some cool stuff.
This is the tragedy of it. They are trying so hard to only get the "best of the best" that the only way you can possibly be interested in that position and quality for it is by lying.
You mean because of using the same string for a key/value? I guess I see the potential problem.
Anyway just think that it might be a bit confusing to have the enum work slightly different depending on whether its using numbers or strings. It can caught some people off guard.
That seems like a much minor situation compared to not being able to reverse map.
You could have a situation where you have a string as a code, and then the display name for example, and you can't really do that as is now. This seems more useful than checking for the type (which in a numeric enum is either a number or string, so you would still need to do some work to properly validate it).
Its always a tough decision, either you make no changes but then have to live with a less than ideal situation, or make changes but forces everyone to update their code.
Personally I think its ok to make incompatible changes once and then, as long as its not too many changes in one go (like python3), its preferable than later on ending up with inconsistent or overly complex languages.