What do you fishes think of this?
1. Become an SME (Subject Matter Expert) in one tech?
2. Keep learning new skills every year and grow the list?

Thought of this recently looking at the openings and then the interviews on a particular skill.
You are expected to have 5-6 years of experience on techs which are lunched in the market just 7-8 years back. But where does this end?

In your expert opinions which one is the better path and sustainable path?

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Personal view- focusing on 1 tech has been working for me well. I believe all those secondary skills can be learned in few weeks/months. Expertise in one tech is harder to find and pays better as well.

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Into a niche tech. Not a Java developer(java is my secondary skill)

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Tools can be learned in a short amount of time. Someday though, you’re going to be a senior, then staff, then principal… point is since you’re anyway going to go that line, why not start now.
What to do? Go deeper. Instead of just hooking up APIs to get the job done, peek under the hood. Get comfortable being uncomfortable with the technologies you’re currently using. For instance, if you’re using Kafka as message queue, see how it’s internally implemented(consistency, throughput, durability). Read Kafka blogs.

So to answer your question, there’s a third option. Learn new skills as needed and become SME. But make sure you know the in and out as an SME. That’s the sustainable path.

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Brilliant way to put it and really helpful.

Sometimes at mid-senior level the expectation is you know
AWS, Azure. Snowflake, GCP
Python, JS, Node
PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik
And SQL is no more a skill it’s basic like HTML & CSS

Wanted to know experts are thinking about it.

if only it was that easy

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I believe in the current market every company is expecting add on skilsl with your core skill. That's what I feel.

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Sadely, market expectations be like "jack of all trades, master of all".

Keep your core expertise intact if you have inclination or interest in 2-3 others, do some side project or get involved in your existing company to show interviewers your experience in many.

Rest depends on the profile you're trying to aim.

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Sadly** typo error

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