Advice for young software professional ?

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Published on 2010-03-21T02:39:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 2:41 UTC
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I recently graduated from college and joined a big reputed software company. I am wondering how would you differentiate yourself among thousands of other competitive & intelligent software engineers and programmers. I am not discounting hard work here. Rather, I would like to know how to go about the job, what things to look out for, opportunities which might about in future or advice in general.

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