How to Get Hired as a Software Engineer in 2025 (The ONE project rule)

18 Aug 2025 · 7 min
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Phil Choi argues aspiring software engineers should build one deep project instead of many shallow ones. A single project forces you to solve real problems like caching, deployment, and CI/CD that employers actually care about, plus learn full-stack understanding that portfolios of small apps won't teach.

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Phil Choi

$300,000 per year

August 18, 2025

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