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Discussion on: to be multi-skilled or master only one technology?

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Adrian B.G.

For what?
What is your career goal? What is the area of expertise?
because ... as usually ... it depends.

From limited experience and research I saw that multi-skilled positions require more cognitive load, do more work to catch up with everything, cover a wider range of problems and they have similar compensations. So most likely, from a salary point of view and your brain sake is better to be an expert.

But ... if you want to work in a startup, is a requirement, most of the times they cannot afford to have a specialist because they have needs in 5-10 areas but only a few employees.

But ... you can be an expert on some technology that has little or no demand ...