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Does Experience in different technologies Count?

 
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Hi,
I need some piece of advice. I am working for one of the top 5 IT companies in India. I am working with this company for 6 years now and is my first job out of campus.
I started my career with VB, then moved on to C, C++ and now working in Java. I feel that it is time to look for other options as the growth for me in my company is becoming limited.

But being worked in multiple technologies, I am not sure whether this is an advantage or disadvantage to show case in my resume. This thought itself is holding me from applying for companies as I am not sure which skill set I should project (I have 2 years in VB, 3 years in C, C++ and 1 year in Java/J2EE) for in my resume. But I have good soft skills and have experience of directly dealing with clients across the geos and have worked at client sites in US and UK.

But most of the companies are asking for experience in a particular skill set for a particular number of years. Will I be getting a job that fits my total experience( like PL or TL etc) in any MNC's or other big Indian IT companies irrespective of me being worked in different technologies throughout my career. If so what

I hope to get some valuable advice from fellow members on this. I am not sure whether I am the one who is having this problem or is this prevalent across all companies.

Thanks in Advance.
 
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Experience in other technologies is generally no help. It could count against you. Too much experience, can definitely count against you.

Recruiters typically can only draw a line from a square on the left half of the page to a square on the right half. Everything they needed to know they learned in kindergarden. So if you have Websphere that doesn't match Weblogic.
 
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It really depends what they're asking for. If I want a developer with 6 years experience, I generally don't care about the particular technology. This isn't a hard rule, as 4 years of HTML coding followed by 2 years of Java is different than 6 years of hard core Java development. On the other hand, wanting 5 years of CORBA experience may be just that, and 5 years of EJB experience just won't cut it.

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