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Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?

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Re: Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?

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I highly recommend you read this classic post from Patrick McKenzie: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... > You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go. This is especially true now, since coding agents make…

While this is true that the stack and domain does not matter for any capable software engineer, most jobs are for hiring particular narrow specialists, requiring the years of experience in a particular framework, and even experience working on an exact same product but in a different company.

Re: Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?

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I highly recommend you read this classic post from Patrick McKenzie: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... > You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go. This is especially true now, since coding agents make…

Unfortunately, in the real world, if you try go for a c# job with java experience you'll run into roadblocks.
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