The generalist's hiring problem
I know too many things. Apparently that’s a problem.
I started with PHP. Then spent years in the JVM world — Scala, Java, building distributed systems. Did backend, DevOps, CI/CD, built frontends with React and Vue. Now I’m deep into TypeScript, serverless, and cloud infrastructure.
I could pick up Go or Python on any project — learning new tools has never been the hard part. The hard part is convincing someone to let you in the door.
But try explaining that to an ATS.