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I have been asked this ques­tion as many num­ber of times as the world pop­u­la­tion. And of course, some peo­ple have asked it more than once. My answer is sim­ple: “Doesn’t Mat­ter”. You will get (or not get) a job either way.

Let me clar­ify that a com­pany basi­cally does not look for a Java pro­gram­mar or a .NET pro­gram­mer. First of all you need to be a pro­gram­mar. That is where most of the fresh­ers lack in the cur­rent world. If your com­puter sci­ence fun­da­men­tals are strong and apti­tude is good, pick­ing up either of these is a two months job. I have reit­er­ated this in many seminars/articles/talks.

Assum­ing you have strong fun­da­men­tals, which one you would pre­fer to take as a pro­gram­ming lan­guage of your choice?

As of now, there are more jobs in Java than in .NET but inci­den­tally the com­pe­ti­tion is a lot less in .NET .

Choose one…any one. And stick to it for quite some time. Does not mat­ter if you are not able to attend walkins/tests in the other stream. There will always be good num­ber of jobs in your own stream. And remem­ber, strong fun­da­men­tals would always be pre­ferred over syn­tac­ti­cal knowl­edge of either lan­guage.