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As an aspiring full-stack developer looking for mentors in this space, this article is a treasure to me. Thanks for this very helpful article

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Love to hear this, thank you!

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3,5,9 best points to remember..! Thanks for sharing..

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This was very helpful for someone who is relatively new in the swe industry

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Great to hear this, thank you!

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Good advice @Ashish. But I take exception to the “learn one language” point. I understand what you are saying, but I think “learn one language deeply, before others” would be more clear. Also, I personally will only hire polyglot engineers. If someone knows only one language, I’m worried they won’t be able to solve problems that require a different linguistic approach. I want to see skill with functional programming languages as well as procedural. That means at a minimum, I expect to see at least some knowledge of languages like Scala, Haskell, Elixir, and then a few more like Java, Rust, or Go. What I’m looking for is “knowledge of programming,” not “knowledge of Java” (for instance).

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