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by silversnitch 1404 days ago
I have worked in couple of Big Techs and they don't care what languages are you proficient in. All that matters is if you're comfortable in the domain they are hiring. Learning languages and frameworks are easier.

So pick a domain you want to explore, like working with services, or mobile, or mobile architecture, web etc

I personally started my journey with Python for back-end and I still love it and do my micro projects in Python.

In industry, I've worked with C#, Java, Golang, Python and concepts I learned during my exploration were super useful in my work. These concepts were handling of data, caches, running services, scaling them up, cloud etc etc

I'm sure there is similar story for mobile and web.

So TL;DR, pick a domain you want to explore and pick a language you're comfortable in. Build expertise in the domain and not the language/framework.

Not that expertise in language/framework doesn't matter, I just personally feel from my experience in industry that domain knowledge is valued more.