| Silicon Valley wants the best and brightest. This filter is opinionated based on the company. If you're looking for work at VMWare, your Rails and MongoDB experience won't be needed. They want C/C++ guy who can hack Linux kernel or write device driver. If you're looking for work at Facebook, they want someone who knows PHP and C/C++ and probably have provided patches to MySQL or memcached. Or they grab "idea" people like Lars (from Google). You should also "own" that domain (compiler, AI, optimization, OS/Kernel, Networking, DB/Data-Mining, business-app, ERP/CRM/Enterprise). This is scary because it forces you to:
1) Put your eggs in one basket: domain 2) And put more eggs in another basket: technology 3) Stay up with the latest in (1) and (2) This left you no room to breathe. To break this cycle you probably have to get out there and do something on your own (meaning: your own business/company) |