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The Difference Between a Developer and Tech Support Engineer

What's the main difference between a developer and a tech support engineer?

Years of experience?

The programming languages they know?

Their educational background?

Most of the time, it's the mindset. A tech support engineer has to find a solution no matter what—or at least suggest a workaround.

And most of the time, the solution is in the place least visited by developers:

The documentation.