Many Armed Banditism

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2024-11-01 11:00:03

When looking for a first job, you may become hopeless. Truly, software development hiring field in 2024 is a pure mess: you could be asked for 5 years of experience in React, and then you would also need to have similar experience in completely unrelated .NET for a front-end position, be able to handle Kubernetes clusters and perform in three frontend frameworks well.

Entry-level jobs are somewhat the same: you need to know everything, even things that you won’t need at your job, to pass an interview, of course. There’s a bunch of tools that you must somehow master, and then use them every day.

After getting hired, this toolset may increase, especially if the startup you’ve gotten into is short-handed. You will be receiving tickets about doing backend, even when you don’t know what a database is, and you’re expected to learn quickly and perform masterfully in that environment. At least, that’s been the path for me.

In this article, I want to describe my thoughts about the jacks of all trades, and whether they are truly masters of none. Of course, it is a personal opinion, and is made more like a healing potion for me and my issues, but I want to share it anyway, maybe it’ll point someone out to their issue they never knew they had, who knows?

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