Comment by yreg
2 days ago
If one wants to optimise career, isn't it better to become an expert in the _less_ mainstream technologies that not-everyone can use?
2 days ago
If one wants to optimise career, isn't it better to become an expert in the _less_ mainstream technologies that not-everyone can use?
Honestly, now that I think about it, I am using a pre-2020 playbook. I don’t know what the hell I would do these days if I were still a pure developer without the industry connections and having AWS ProServe experience on my resume.
While it is true that I got a job quickly in 2023 and last year when I was looking, while I was interviewing for those two, as a Plan B, I was randomly submitting my resume (which I think is quite good) to literally hundreds of jobs through Indeed and LinkedIn Easy Apply and I heard crickets - regular old enterprise dev jobs that wanted C#, Node or Python experience on top of AWS.
I don’t really have any generic strategy for people these days aside from whatever job you are at, don’t be a ticket taker and be over larger initiatives.