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Discussion on: Will a Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None developer get hired these days?

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Matteo Joliveau

Yes. And no at the same time. As others pointed out in the comments it is a pain to deal with during the selection process but an interesting skillset to have during actual work time.

My advice is to get a core set of skill you are confident and good at (not especially awesome, just good) and keep a wide panorama of knowledge about other technologies.

For example, I'm a Java and Kotlin developer. I work as such and I know the language very well alongside many of the top open source frameworks for it. But I'm skilled in Ruby, NodeJS, ReactJS, Angular and Go too. Not very skilled, but enough to keep projects going.

That makes it easy to pass interviews for Java development positions while pleasing my employer with a more versatile skill set.