Thanks for sharing that Aniket! I definitely agree with what you're saying.

The only thing I would add would be a comment that hiring managers prefer candidates who are only experts in 1 set of related skills (tech stack), often because they themselves are masters of no tech stacks (assuming an executive or product manager is hiring), so they can't imagine anyone being a real expert with more than 1 tech stack.

So, if they see more than 1 tech stack, they'll assume a candidate is a less-qualified generalist, at least during the hiring process.

In certain high-performing teams with a lot of trust, someone can definitely make use of their 2nd (or additional) area of expertise, like the video editing you mentioned.

But during the hiring peocess, most hiring managers would see any secondary expertise as a negative, simply because they're trying to sort through 100s or 1000s of resumes as fast as possible using the heuristic of "is this candidate a specialist expert with what we need?"

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and experiences!!