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Accidental Self-Sabotage On LinkedIn
It’s easy to be over specific, with perhaps too much focus on the detail, when you’re a progressive software engineer.
Often we progressive software engineers go the extra mile on the lowest common denominator web sites such as LinkedIn thinking that we’re doing a good thing by being specific, adding more relevant detail, and generally being as unambiguous as possible with our profile information.
This, unfortunately, can have a few unforeseen consequences.
When writing your profile it’s common to list all of the technologies, operating systems, and languages that you’ve worked with — even if you didn’t particularly enjoy using them and did so to gain some relevant experience, get a foothold that you could use to get into a better and more enjoyable part of the market, or maybe you just did it for the cash¹.
If you’re of a similar experience to myself you’d have come across things like Windows, worked with them for a while, then moved on to things that are actually nice to work with or perhaps out of personal preference and not wanting to encourage Microsoft in any way that its products are vaguely useful¹.
Some technologies are just anathema to genuinely progressive engineers — working with the Microsoft ecosystem (I won’t list everything poisonous here as it will take way too…
