Comment by JustExAWS

Comment by JustExAWS 3 days ago

You are exactly right in my case - JavaScript and Python dealing with the AWS CDK and SDK. Where there is plenty of documentation and code samples.

Even when it occasionally gets it wrong, it’s just a matter of telling ChatGPT - “verify your code using the official documentation”.

But honestly, even before LLMs when deciding on which technology, service, or frameworks to use I would always go with the most popular ones because they are the easiest to hire for, easiest to find documentation and answers for and when I myself was looking for a job, easiest to be the perfect match for the most jobs.

oblio 3 days ago

Yeah, but most devs are working on brownfield projects where they did not choose any part of the tech stack.

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JustExAWS 3 days ago

They can choose jobs. Starting with my 3rd job in 2008, I always chose my employer based on how it would help me get my n+1 job and that was based on tech stack I would be using.
Once a saw a misalignment between market demands and current tech stack my employer was using, I changed jobs. I’m on job #10 now.

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- yreg 2 days ago
  
  If one wants to optimise career, isn't it better to become an expert in the _less_ mainstream technologies that not-everyone can use?
  
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  JustExAWS 2 days ago
  
  Honestly, now that I think about it, I am using a pre-2020 playbook. I don’t know what the hell I would do these days if I were still a pure developer without the industry connections and having AWS ProServe experience on my resume.
  While it is true that I got a job quickly in 2023 and last year when I was looking, while I was interviewing for those two, as a Plan B, I was randomly submitting my resume (which I think is quite good) to literally hundreds of jobs through Indeed and LinkedIn Easy Apply and I heard crickets - regular old enterprise dev jobs that wanted C#, Node or Python experience on top of AWS.
  I don’t really have any generic strategy for people these days aside from whatever job you are at, don’t be a ticket taker and be over larger initiatives.
  
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- oblio 3 days ago
  
  When did you get your last 3 jobs?
  
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  JustExAWS 3 days ago
  
  Mid 2020 - at AWS ProServe the internal consulting arm of AWS - full time job
  Late 2023 - full time at a third party AWS consulting company. It took around two weeks after I started looking to get an offer
  Late 2024 - “Staff consultant” third party consulting company. An internal recruiter reached out to me.
  Before 2020 I was just a run of the mill C#/JS enterprise developer. I didn’t open the AWS console for the first time until mid 2018.
  
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