Me personally, for my company I would not hire any contractor making code for me in python. Not because python is inherently bad or unoptimized in all cases, but because I know the general tendency is to use lots of dependencies. Pythons motto over all is easy over hard that has really spread in the community in a not so good way. Like I said though, I use it, I like it, it is awesome for banging out prototypes, but I avoid it for production. There is just to many potholes to the point I would rather just code something from scratch closer to the hardware, which I will admit I do not enjoy xD, but if its what needs to be done, then so be it. There are just a lot of things that I work on where even 5% efficiency could save you thousands.