LikeAking:



Getting a job is a lesser option for me. The must important thing is to become a guru.

Nigerians we love to spoil thing with our mindset.

It's better I am a guru and no job.

U no go understand Sha.

So you'd rather be a guru and no job yet you come and be haranguing people up and down here to "show love" or else they are "stingy" and "fake remote workers"...Na guru dey hungry you abi? Dey guru dey go. If I hear you mention "stingy" and "fake remote workers" again here....you will know what it means to be a guru

Most of the job requirements now needs you to be living in UK especially if you're applying to a UK company.

airsaylongcome:


So you'd rather be a guru and no job yet you come and be haranguing people up and down here to "show love" or else they are "stingy" and "fake remote workers"...Na guru dey hungry you abi? Dey guru dey go. If I hear you mention "stingy" and "fake remote workers" again here....you will know what it means to be a guru

My brother, if I am a guru money go find me, not jobs.

U get?

Serious fact.

Una wey get job suppose to help others. Not me o, I am good.

Na so life suppose be.

That's the way I see life.

I may be wrong.

airsaylongcome:


Sorry I should have been more explicit.

FTE: Full Time Employee
IC: Independent Contractor

FTE is more preferred but harder to get outside of the US

Oh... really. Thanks for explaining

LikeAking:


My brother, if I am a guru money go find me, not jobs.

U get?

I nor go lie but I once believe that but you know what, if someone can't sell himself/herself it's kinda hard or won't get what's expected. For me, knowing something is different from marketing yourself about it.

So focusing on only the expert level only won't work my brother as no one can ever reach expert level instantly cause learning is a lifelong process

tosinhtml:


You're probably new to this industry or maybe just 2 years in, you believe that by being the best leetcoder will get you the best jobs. While this could be true, it could just be suffering without smiling because It doesn't guarantee that you will get the job. That you pass an interview doesn't mean you will get the job. The hiring manager needs to look at your situation all round to make a decision. That's where luck comes in.

I feel luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It takes a whole lot mentally to be good at algorithms and opportunities are always coming in tech. Imagine Amazon the other day announcing that they are coming to recruit from Nigeria and a dev gets an interview. How would you pass without knowing algorithms. Last year, a career fair was held in Lagos here for tech bros. More than 100 tech guys got jobs in Canada. It was all relocation based and the interview was all Algo based. A lady friend of mine who got a job in Canada that sponsored her visa attended this fair. It's not assurance of job but it's improving your luck. Even when I dont have any interview or anything I will always be prepared cause you never know when that opportunity will come and when that time comes you have to be ready.

LikeAking:


If u believe, then u no b coder.

Sorry!

K

LikeAking:


My brother, if I am a guru money go find me, not jobs.

U get?

Serious fact.

Una wey get job suppose to help others. Not me o, I am good.

Na so life suppose be.

That's the way I see life.

I may be wrong.

You are COMPLETELY WRONG. COMPLETELY.

Helping is completely voluntary and in a variety of ways. And it is earned, not demanded. I have a few goons that I have spent my money to buy flash drives, spent my data to download 80GB learning resources, spent my money to send this several miles across the country. For people I don't know and I've never met. But they earned it. They showed an overwhelming desire to learn and we're facing stumbling blocks accessing learning resources.

You run about here guilt tripping those fortunate to work remote. See, many people working remote don't feel superior to anyone. Many (myself included) know it was God that made the lines fall in the right places. But you go about accusing remote workers of being fake. Of being stingy. Like it is their job to handout money like a PDP or APC presidential aspirant.

It's okay to be a guru. It's okay to be an expert in the hopes that money will find you. But don't go about guilt tripping those who have taken their beginner to intermediate skill to the market and are "seeing front small small" with the lean bar they are seeing. You don't know what they are seeing daily at work. Remote work is not turn up, do nothing and earn "big" money. You work your back raw.

chukwuebuka65:


K

I just dey play.

tensazangetsu20:


I feel luck is when preparation meets opportunity..

Gbam! Point blank period!

My main role today, I stumbled on it in 2014 and had been playing with it on and off since then. With Corona, I had to setup a quick solution for my Nigerian employeers at the time. Quickly put up the solution and was fixing problems as they arise. Company no dey pay me for all that o. I was just enjoying the fact that I was learning something new and the whole company was relying on it.

airsaylongcome:


You are COMPLETELY WRONG. COMPLETELY.

Helping is completely voluntary and in a variety of ways. And it is earned, not demanded. I have a few goons that I have spent my money to buy flash drives, spent my data to download 80GB learning resources, spent my money to send this several miles across the country. For people I don't know and I've never met. But they earned it. They showed an overwhelming desire to learn and we're facing stumbling blocks accessing learning resources.

You run about here guilt tripping those fortunate to work remote. See, many people working remote don't feel superior to anyone. Many (myself included) know it was God that made the lines fall in the right places. But you go about accusing remote workers of being fake. Of being stingy. Like it is their job to handout money like a PDP or APC presidential aspirant.

It's okay to be a guru. It's okay to be an expert in the hopes that money will find you. But don't go about guilt tripping those who have taken their beginner to intermediate skill to the market and are "seeing front small small" with the lean bar they are seeing. You don't know what they are seeing daily at work. Remote work is not turn up, do nothing and earn "big" money. You work your back raw.

Lean bar? Lolz.

Make una enjoy una money, while I guru up.

tensazangetsu20:


I feel luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It takes a whole lot mentally to be good at algorithms and opportunities are always coming in tech. Imagine Amazon the other day announcing that they are coming to recruit from Nigeria and a dev gets an interview. How would you pass without knowing algorithms. Last year, a career fair was held in Lagos here for tech bros. More than 100 tech guys got jobs in Canada. It was all relocation based and the interview was all Algo based. A lady friend of mine who got a job in Canada that sponsored her visa attended this fair. It's not assurance of job but it's improving your luck. Even when I dont have any interview or anything I will always be prepared cause you never know when that opportunity will come and when that time comes you have to be ready.

word!

tensazangetsu20:


I feel luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It takes a whole lot mentally to be good at algorithms and opportunities are always coming in tech. Imagine Amazon the other day announcing that they are coming to recruit from Nigeria and a dev gets an interview. How would you pass without knowing algorithms. Last year, a career fair was held in Lagos here for tech bros. More than 100 tech guys got jobs in Canada. It was all relocation based and the interview was all Algo based. A lady friend of mine who got a job in Canada that sponsored her visa attended this fair. It's not assurance of job but it's improving your luck. Even when I dont have any interview or anything I will always be prepared cause you never know when that opportunity will come and when that time comes you have to be ready.

I never argued about preparation not meeting opportunity. My point is there is always an element of luck in the company that eventually picks you, the actual decision is not determined by how you pass the interview per say, there are other factors involved. That is why I was stressing to the OP not to worry too much when you fail an Interview, you move to the next one. The engineering manager may not be happy with how you answered one question in particular & frown upon that.

This becomes more prominent if you apply for Senior Roles EG: Senior backend, Senior Frontend, Senior Mobile etc, you won't only have Algo questions. Behavioural questions, System Design Interviews can also be a pain in the neck, ofcourse you'll still have to prepare for that too but then it becomes more trickier. You will also be asked specific questions in your field of expertise and you need to know what you're doing.

There is nothing wrong in preparing for Algos daily, if you have the time and resource, do it. Everybody has to prepare for months to start Interview process.

My point is believing that there is no element of luck in the company that eventually picks you is false. I have done enough Interviews in my lifetime and I can tell you that for free.

tosinhtml:


I never argued about preparation not meeting opportunity. My point is there is always an element of luck in the company that eventually picks you, the actual decision is not determined by how you pass the interview per say, there are other factors involved. That is why I was stressing to the OP not to worry too much when you fail an Interview, you move to the next one. The engineering manager may not be happy with how you answered one question in particular & frown upon that.

This becomes more prominent if you apply for Senior Roles EG: Senior backend, Senior Frontend, Senior Mobile etc, you won't only have Algo questions. Behavioural questions, System Design Interviews can also be a pain in the neck, ofcourse you'll still have to prepare for that too but then it becomes more trickier. You will also be asked specific questions in your field of expertise and you need to know what you're doing.

There is nothing wrong in preparing for Algos daily, if you have the time and resource, do it. Everybody has to prepare for months to start Interview process.

My point is believing that there is no element of luck in the company that eventually picks you is false. I have done enough Interviews in my lifetime and I can tell you that for free.

Oh yeah definitely well to me my default expectation with regards to anything is always failure so I really don't flinch when bad things happen. I rarely have good things happen to me so I am good

I didn't know people take Tech Rejection personal. That's a waste of time, do as many interviews as you want is my advice.

tensazangetsu20:


Oh yeah definitely well to me my default expectation with regards to anything is always failure so I really don't flinch when bad things happen. I rarely have good things happen to me so I am good

For me, I know if someone keeps interviewing for a year, one of them will definitely workout and most times It's the one we don't expect that ends up working out. So far the companies that stress me the most in Interviews have ended up giving me the less reward, so I have completely removed my mind from expecting a reward just because I suffered in the process. This is just my personal experience.

LikeAking:


My brother, if I am a guru money go find me, not jobs.

U get?

Serious fact.

Una wey get job suppose to help others. Not me o, I am good.

Na so life suppose be.

That's the way I see life.

I may be wrong.

@airsaylongcome ignore this guy he doesn't know how to talk, "Una" to someone that helps people get gigs, people dey mad for this NL, i swear , as if say he keep money with person. My Guy grow and be thinking before talking, you're sabotaging your own opportunity.

You're not the only one frustrated, but no one owes you anything.

qtguru:
I didn't know people take Tech Rejection personal. That's a waste of time, do as many interviews as you want is my advice.

Failure is failure.. E no easy to chest disappointment especially when everything seems so sure

DrLevi:

Failure is failure.. E no easy to chest disappointment especially when everything seems so sure

Every candidate thinks so, the cost of relocating a Nigeria is expensive and tedious, esp when they can just pick someone else. Nothing is ever sure until you see offer letter or even Visa sef, anything can happen

qtguru:


Every candidate thinks so, the cost of relocating a Nigeria is expensive and tedious, esp when they can just pick someone else. Nothing is ever sure until you see offer letter or even Visa sef, anything can happen

This one happened to me, I was given an offer but denied visa twice. Naija factor.

qtguru:


Every candidate thinks so, the cost of relocating a Nigeria is expensive and tedious, esp when they can just pick someone else. Nothing is ever sure until you see offer letter or even Visa sef, anything can happen

Until you have passed Customs and Immigration and are sitting in an Uber heading to your accommodation, nothing is sure

airsaylongcome:


Until you have passed Customs and Immigration and are sitting in an Uber heading to your accommodation, nothing is sure

lol you people are scaring me

Also just incase I am looking for DevOps Nigerian company, you should know Docker, Git , Jenkins and Linux.

qtguru:


@airsaylongcome ignore this guy he doesn't know how to talk, "Una" to someone that helps people get gigs, people dey mad for this NL, i swear , as if say he keep money with person. My Guy grow and be thinking before talking, you're sabotaging your own opportunity.

You're not the only one frustrated, but no one owes you anything.

Which opourtunity?

LikeAking:


Which opourtunity?

what’s your niche in this tech space that we are all hustling in?

airsaylongcome:


what’s your niche in this tech space that we are all hustling in?

JS full stack.

Also open to dev on various platforms.

tosinhtml:


This one happened to me, I was given an offer but denied visa twice. Naija factor.

which country

jesmond3945:
which country

Thailand, company is Agoda.

airsaylongcome:


Until you have passed Customs and Immigration and are sitting in an Uber heading to your accommodation, nothing is sure

Event this isn't still sure. someone on LinkedIn was complaining about getting a job in the UK he's based in Malta. He traveled to the UK and his offer got rescinded a day to starting work. I think until you have worked and collected first month salary expect nothing. Nothing is certain.

tosinhtml:

Thailand, company is Agoda.

na mumu dey worry the country. Na to do remote with the company.

qtguru:


Every candidate thinks so, the cost of relocating a Nigeria is expensive and tedious, esp when they can just pick someone else. Nothing is ever sure until you see offer letter or even Visa sef, anything can happen

Did the cost increase recently? because it used to be a norm for companies to relocate talent

DrLevi:

Did the cost increase recently? because it used to be a norm for companies to relocate talent

Cost, delay it's cheaper to relocate EU devs, so why should the company give Nigerians any special treatment, Foreigners don't send anybody unless it's luck that they want you bad.