[randrews]

I think you might be putting a bit too much stock in what a recruiter thinks. Recruiters generally do not know the first thing about the industry they're recruiting for, and in my experience, having a history of solving problems across a breadth of domains is received well by hiring managers.

You just need to find the right hiring managers. But the trick is, the ones who don't value that? Aren't the ones you want to work for anyway.

[nebula8804]

If you are not well connected or well established, I don't know how you could possibly find those correct hiring managers. I don't have anything other than legacy companies or midsized no name enterprise shops on my resume. How does that translate into anything other than the riff raff looking at my resume?

[randrews]

I'm not well-connected, and if you have a bunch of experience on your resume, you're probably established enough. Send your resume out to a bunch of companies. Expect that most of them will reject you, some subset of those will waste some of your time first. From the outside, you can't easily tell which are the good companies to work for. But eventually, if you have good technical skills, you'll find a place that cares about that more than resume buzzwords and FAANG employment history. I have, over and over, and have made a career out of working for those places.