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Job descriptions ask for expertise in everything. Should I be a specialist or a generalist to stay competitive?
How do you approach skill development in your career?

Jack of all trades or master of one?

I'm a generalist with 4 YOE, earning 17 LPA. 
Skills include but are not limited to: Nodejs, ReactJs, AWS, Jenkins, Docker and Linux. People in my company involve me in everything that requires solving problems. I have worked on multiple stacks beyond what I've mentioned and trained / guided junior to intermediate level of engineers

I'm searching for a new job, but I don't see companies having a dire need for generalists. This is partly because generalists don't command enough confidence unless deployed on a project to work their magic (or so is what I believe)

People having or knowing people in my techstack, do you think it is possible to expect a salary of 30 LPA ? Or is specialization an inevitable next step to take ? Also, how should I position myself in interviews ?

Your thoughts will be appreciated.

Jack of all trades: Any space left for generalists anymore?

In my current role, I have been exposed to a variety of technologies over the past six months, including Flutter, FlutterFlow, Kotlin, and Swift. While I have gained some experience, I have not been able to fully master any of these areas.

To enhance my career trajectory and potentially seek new opportunities within a year, I am seeking advice on which technology I should prioritize for in-depth study and mastery.

Please provide recommendations based on factors such as:

1. Market demand and future trends
2. The potential for long-term growth and specialization

Seeking Guidance for Future Career Path

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I am working as head of data and analytics for a small test preparation startup from Portugal based out of Bangalore . The role involves creating of data engineering platform and analytics system from 0-1 , the volume of data is small and not much interesting work as data literacy is less . Salary is 1 cr+ , with very good wlb and manager but not good work . Should I stay more than 2 yrs if my brand will be diluted and won’t get into good. Companies , I worked in  walmart and razor pay . What should I do , in these small setting is my career over

Next career move

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Will entertain only serious questions that respect anonymity. I don’t mind humor, but trolling is strict no no.

Conducted one AMA session last week & was overwhelmed by both number & positive feedback. I might choose to skip any question repeated from last time.

Some things about me
- I love to code & go beyond coding
- Managed a team of around 20 people before
- I love mentoring people
- Presently overseeing the architecture and lifecycle of a suite of products

Don’t mind me giving you some useful gyan 😀

Presently Senior Architect, previously Engineering Manager, 18+ yoe in software engg. AMA

Software Architect

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A friend of mine is looking to move into product management/Founder’s office roles. He has around 6 years of work experience in operations management but had to leave the job because of personal reasons and after that break he picked up Sales Lead job. The job doesn’t pay much and he isn’t enjoying either. He is not able to find good operations and supply chain roles in India either. 

Do you have any advice on how he can make a transition into such roles? Any good courses that will help with placement also?

Looking to transition into PM

Head Of Growth

I've recently started my journey with a product-based company as a fresher, where my primary focus revolves around backend development using Node.js. Although I thoroughly enjoy delving into backend architecture and databases, I find myself at a crossroads. Heard many discussions among seniors of the rise of Deno, Go, and Rust, suggesting a shift from JavaScript. In view of a long-term perspective, I am contemplating dedicating time to learning an additional technology and engaging in side projects. Could you kindly share your insights or recommendations based on your experience? Your guidance in this tech landscape would be greatly appreciated. #BackendExploration #TechInsights

Fresher. Need help with choosing technologies.

Hi Grapevine, 

I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. 

Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things.

Ask me your question. I'll be back at 8 pm and begin answering!

I'm Arnav Gupta, Director of Engineering at Jio Cinema. Ask me anything!

Why is jiocinema so effin horrible to use on Samsung tvs ? Just fix this shit already.

Intern

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Hi,

I want to work in either US or European countries. Is it possible to land there without doing masters? I am a software engineer and financially it’s hard for me to go for masters. Is it possible that I can apply from here and land a job in any of the companies in other countries?

I have 3.5 years of experience and I am confused whether I should do masters or keep working in tech?

It's more than 1 month now without a job and I waste a lot of time watching YT and stuff. I don't have any other thing to do (than preparing for interviews). How do you guys spend your time?

Age - 22
Previous TC (in hand) - 16 LPA

How do you (jobless) guys spend your time?

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Just an hour ago I had a talk with someone I got to knew through my neighbour. He is a backend engineer by profession and experienced in the field. So I contacted him as I was looking for any job/internship and if he could refer me in any company through his networking. He asked what I was currently learning so I told him I am doing Full-Stack. I did 3 months internship in frontend and was going for backend so I could become a full-fledged developer. He told me not to do that instead pick either frontend or backend and go for it. He advised that big companies usually don't hire full-stack developers instead hire these roles separately so I should just focus on the domain I am good at.

My placements are very close and I am learning as much as I can full-time so what should I do? I am already anxious whether I will get placed or not due to current market situation and advice like this makes me doubt whether I am going correctly or just wasting my time and efforts.

So; can anyone tell me what should I do? Should I do full-stack or go with either frontend or backend?

Should I just focus in one field?

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

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I am in IT. Coding n all that. But i think I’m meant for something else. I’m more of a artistic person than logical(i guess). I prefer fixed rule/law based work than spontaneity (except in humor. I'm humorous ).

I won’t be leaving IT anytime soon, but i need suggestions on what suits me. Guys tell me no🙏🏼

Career switch?

Currently I am doing an SLI in the frontend team ( React ) at a good company, So for the full time roles after college should I stay in frontend or look for backend opportunities ? What is better for the future ? 

P.S. I have worked on full stack projects in the college and enjoy both frontend and backend equally.

Frontend vs Backend

With AI improving we see it is quite capable of writing decent codes, how can someone new to tech decide on what to pick up? Frontend or Backend or both. Nowadays they say Full stack developers are in demand but shouldn't one be good at at least one thing and have knowledge about other things? How to prioritise what to learn. There are just so many things that I'm a bit confused as to what to learn and focus on. I'd like to seek advice from a future perspective, and any predictions on how the tech industry might shape up.

Need advice on Tech

Product Manager

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I see candidates with 2-4 years earning in 20LPA+ whereas sales and marketing folks who sit with 4-8LPA tops. Isn't the disparity too much?

Is tech overpaid? Why not sales or marketing?

Marketing Manager

I am a non-tech professional with 2.5 years of work experience. I am looking to transition into the tech field. Could you please offer any suggestions?

Seeking Advice for Transitioning to Tech

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So, I've been working with ReactJS for quite some time now. Kinda getting bored. So, I decided to spend some time upskilling this month and start applying for jobs next month.
I have 2 things in my mind that I want to pickup, but unable to decide in what order I should add them to my arsenal.

- NextJS 13 (app dir)
- TS (for both ReactJS and NextJS)

I also wanted to expand myself from frontend to fullstack (probably to MERN), but some fullstack devs suggested me to stick to one end and get really good at it because your expertise in one end is what fetches you a good job and not being a "jack of all trades, master of none" dev. So, this has also kept me in the middle ground right now.

I did try to explore nextJS with a UI library but most UI libs ask you to have them declared as client components. Doesnt that defeat the advantage of SSR that we get on nextJS by default? Saw many people facing this issue.

What would you suggest ?

Need help with in what order I should learn these

What would you suggest a person with no tech background should start learning given the current AI scenario and what to learn? For context I’ll be working mostly as a manager, I’m a marketing graduate with MBA from tier 1 college, but i want to know what things you need to learn to work in roles like PM or things you might need to know to build a tech company?

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