Want to avoid the most common career traps made by engineers in the adtech space? MediaMath’s VP of Engineering, Ben Donohue, shares his thoughts on how to navigate an ever-changing tech market while pursuing this professional path, via an InfoWorld article published by Paul Heltzel.
Read an excerpt of the article below:
Your expertise in one stack may make you invaluable to your current workplace — but is it helping your career? Can it hurt to be too focused on only one stack?
MediaMath’s Donohue doesn’t pull any punches on this one: “Of course it is — there’s no modern software engineering role in which you will use only one technology for the length of your career. If you take a Java developer that has been working in Java for 10 years, and all of a sudden they start working on a JavaScript application, they’ll write it differently than someone with similar years of experience as a Python developer. Each technology that you learn influences your decisions. Some would argue that isn’t a good thing — if you take a Java object-oriented approach to a loosely typed language like JavaScript, you’ll try to make it do things that it isn’t supposed to do.”
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