How am I suppose to get a job as a software engineer?

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so I had this interesting interaction today on Twitch where someone effectively asked me this question where they said hey companies are looking for all these Technologies and they also require alos and data structures do you think this is fair now this might be a bit of a hot take especially in today's world no I don't think it's fair but at the exact same time life is not fair so you're going to have to figure some of these things out now are all these Technologies are requirement at every company no are technologies that companies list as their requirements a requirement often no it's just like a wish list people just put all this crap on these resumés and eventually someone hits most the markers and they say hey that's good enough but what can you do with these wish list what can you do with these qualifications well you can use those as stepping stones to get the job you want now yes they may interview you with some algorithms and data structures do I think that's the best way to interview someone no but should you know about them yes just learn them if you know that's the handshake to get into a company that you want to work at just spend a couple weeks in your own time learning them it's not that hard and the more time you put into it the easier they get and when I say it's not that hard yes the concepts they are initially hard but like everything in the world you put time and effort into it it gets easier and so yes you can sit around and say oh these things aren't Fair they're not right oh I think interviews are broken blah blah blah blah blah or you can realize you are being handed the exact checklist you need to be able to dunk on an interview for a company that's going to pay you six figure salary so just do it and that's kind of the mentality I took into it is that I just didn't care right I just don't have to think of the Justice or Injustice to the whole situation instead I can just go okay I am going to figure out what they want and I'm going to crush what they want so of course this guy responds with it's impossible to learn everything and have experience with everything and I do agree there is not enough time the day to explore everything but a little bit of hard work and some time you can explore a lot of things you can knock out basic understanding of Docker and all this infrastructure uh requirements for devops in just a couple weeks of practice and really getting after it you will become able to at least talk about it and most jobs don't need to hire the best person ever they're looking for someone that has the language and understanding to be able to Google and build the solution for them you don't need to be the best but you need to just simply understand how it's used the trade-offs for different versions of these things and what you should be doing so yes you can can actually have experience with quite a few things if you use your time effec please if you're looking for a job you're on your first job you don't like it you're on your second job you don't like it you don't have a job and you really really want one take the time to explore to learn these things go look at all these different job requirements the jobs that you want see what they all require and learn about it enough to be able to talk with people and second off you know what you can do you can say jump into the Discord yes there's 1,800 people actively online and about 5700 members that means if you have technologies that you're trying to figure out things that you're working on there is a programming section which you can ask questions about but what you really want is to be able to bounce your ideas off of discuss things you have to have people in your life go to meetups talk about technology practice and then moreover find companies you don't really care about getting hired at and interview become good at it be able to practice the art of discussing your ideas in a situation in which is just tossed on you cuz most of the time interviewers are looking for someone that can discuss ideas and come to Solutions they're not necessarily always looking for someone that's going to give them the most pristine answer in that moment and they're often not looking for someone that knows all the Technologies they've listed so take the time practice do it it's going to be beneficial I would highly recommend looking at Life as a challenge not as an inconvenience to look at it as an adventure not some sort of Injustice or ill will towards yourself and I strongly recommend that you hit that sub button okay can you just hit it and yes I did subtly State at the beginning of this that I was streaming on Twitch so you know you can jump in the section down below and follow the links my name is the primagen