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By learning new programming languages or frameworks you stand out from the crowd. Guess who's going to get a job: A) The fool who just learned JavaScript and
by LunaSea 12y ago
By learning new programming languages or frameworks you stand out from the crowd.
Guess who's going to get a job:
A) The fool who just learned JavaScript and Angular.js
B) The university student who only knows Java
The answer will be (A) every single time because companies don't have the time to train people for months.
- codezero 12y agoThis hasn't been my experience in practice but I guess it depends on what kinds of companies you've worked with. Everywhere I've worked, they hire engineers based on a lot of factors, and it has been more often the case that they'd go for someone who knows a different stack really well, than someone who knows all the newest stacks.
- bad_user 12y agoDepending on context, it is going to be (C) the developer who has something to show on GitHub or (D) the developer that knows about algorithms, networking, computer architecture and that can solve concurrency issues. Thanks for the example BTW - you've highlighted the problem precisely - the question is do you want your competition to be college students that only know Java? Because that says something about the company in question. And yes, it's a choice.