Confession time: I'm a top-level engineer in a web development company who uses PHP every day. I have two degrees. I seriously couldn't answer most of those interview questions to save myself.
I've never used Docker, Node, Nginx, or most anything else made in the last decade.
Am I a shitty developer? Am I a cheat? Am I an imposter? No. I simply don't give a shit about learning the formal way to do things when the work I do on a daily basis doesn't require it.
Let's be honest: the vast majority of PHP web development boils down to "echo", "foreach", and database access (PDO). It's essentially a bunch of CRUD operations. Architecture and system design is usually abstracted away by existing frameworks.
If you're only editing existing websites and not building modules which actually get shipped to end users, then you're really just doing the grown-up equivalent of editing a MySpace template.
I've never used Docker, Node, Nginx, or most anything else made in the last decade.
Am I a shitty developer? Am I a cheat? Am I an imposter? No. I simply don't give a shit about learning the formal way to do things when the work I do on a daily basis doesn't require it.
Let's be honest: the vast majority of PHP web development boils down to "echo", "foreach", and database access (PDO). It's essentially a bunch of CRUD operations. Architecture and system design is usually abstracted away by existing frameworks.
If you're only editing existing websites and not building modules which actually get shipped to end users, then you're really just doing the grown-up equivalent of editing a MySpace template.