Should I become a Generalist or Specialist in Software Engineering? Which is good for our career? Who’s more valuable to your business: Someone who can have multiple skills or someone who’s very talented at one thing? Is it really dicey if I opt to become a specialist rather a generalist in software development? What does owner really want? So many questions in mind and also discussed with others but didn’t get any success to opt which route is best for us or what we should take. Majorly employees are divided into two categories: Generalists and Specialists. I believe you all are well aware of the term of Generalists and Specialists.
Generalist depicts that someone who has knowledge or expertise in a variety of things and a specialist is the one who has a deep understanding of particular technology such as app development, custom application development services etc. Being a specialist developer you can have better and more career opportunities and employers perspective you are more knowledgeable and provide better and much effective work strategies in tackling problems of particular subjects or areas. As a specialist, you appear to achieve better and top outcomes in your specialized area or department and also appear more expensive. “Highly paid“ is the biggest downside of being a specialist software developer. But employers need both in different places at different times but it’s all your end decisions what you want to be. But it’s not sufficient to be a specialist; experience in a particular area doesn’t mean that you always deliver good outcomes. Problems and complexities are wide and varied and can also have any type of nature, for example, short-term issues or long-term issues, area specific issues or common issue etc. a developer with a variety of experience or technical skills in different areas or framework can serve the best outcome for the industry. He can provide you a specialized solution whereas a generalized guy can give you different technological alternatives to solve a problem that also gives an option to employers select according to their business goals, needs, and budget. Generalist developer is always in higher demand as they are qualified and well-trained personnel in different tools, methodologies, languages or frameworks. It’s an ongoing debate and I am not in a favor or against of anyone. What my opinion on these is that initially on learning stage when we have no extra knowledge except academic or expertise in any technology, specialization fits better. We are a newbie, no real technical knowledge and also there is a deadline then it becomes hard to serve in many other branches of knowledge. Once I got mastery on any particular skill, it becomes easier to learn other technical skills at the competent level. For example, after four years in dot net technology if I swap development framework with Java framework in other Web Development Company, after initial hurdles but with fewer efforts I can easily achieve the extra title in other technology too. So we can be the best fit in any one of them but choose thoroughly where you want to eventually end up in custom app development after considering your potential, skills and all other important technical factors.
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January 2018
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