megafustar:
Hello Everyone,

Thanks so much for the great advice from all contributors to this forum.

I think someone should lend a voice to this unrealistic waiting period for a visa appointment. Please, what is the way forward to fasten this shameful challenge?

My resumption date is 1st of August and the appointment booking site is showing a waiting period of 14 - 16 months. I have never seen anything as frustrating as this. And to worsen the situation, the confirmation email clearly stated that one should refrain from inquiries in the meantime (a perfect synonym for I don't care).

Someone more experienced should kindly advice on a possible alternative instead of waiting a whole year for a visa appointment (Employer go don move on be that naa).

Na to get someone in Germany to voice an opinion, only God knows what is going on? And you are right by the time you waited a year employer would have moved on.

RolexJames:
Hello please has anyone applied for a work visa appointment recently? I'm currently seeing that if I apply now I'll get an appointment in 14-16 months. Will it really take that long? Edakun epp me plix

I have applied a few months back when the months were a little less but time for fasting and praying.

MicroMo:
Abeg what happens if you didn't cancel an appointment, and you book another one? Does it work that way?

Both get cancelled from my understanding and you get but on the naughty list

Ritazcorea:
Good afternoon everyone
A friend of my told me in addition to your original documents you must also bring scanned copies of every documents required my the embassy. Please is that true

I believe scanned or photocopies are fine. All documents need to be copied apart from the visa application form, it says in the requirements

How far I am just opening this thread to make enquiries about German Student and Work Visa. IT seems with the new appointment system in place. They will be taking on a long time.

At the moment if you book an appointment on the site today, your appointment will be in 11-13 months. Note this is not the visa but the appointment.

Is there anyone that has applied recently for student or work visa, the site currently says it will take 11-13 months to get an appointment... kuku kill me

Is there anyone that has applied recently for student or work visa, the site currently says it will take 11-13 months to get an appointment... kuku kill me

ispoa:

I don't think you're allowed to work remotely till D2 or so.

Once you start working with a partner, you are encouraged to do what you think is best for you. If that is staying in your house and working remotely then so be it

ispoa:
Hello house, I'm sure we have heard of Andela. well I'm in a dilemma. I'm basically a junior developer with a month of actual work experience. My question is, is it wise for me to reject Andela? I'm concerned about the two year bond. I feel if I get six months of experience in my current job, I could match Andela's D1 salary. The main attraction for me for working with Andela is the international exposure. Please help.

Hi I am D2 and work with Andela. My reply to you would be depending on your motivations.

I feel if I get six months of experience in my current job, I could match Andela's D1 salary.

This might be true but fortunately, I would expect a D1 from Andela to blow a lot of developers with even more experience away every time. If you embody the EPIC values then you should join because you will be definitely equipped with the tools to make you world class. However, if all you seek is international exposure then you might be better of elsewhere

labanj1:

I know. I'm talking about the fellowship cycle. I want to know if people who had no prior coding experience have made it in.

Yup a colleague in my cohort was working in a bank before she got into Andela and no coding experience

Hopefully someone finds this useful https://andela.com/insights/how-to-join-andela-as-a-software-developer/

Fuckmytoto:
Y'all looking for senior engineer like you can afford one , the other post I saw stated they'll be paying a senior software engineer 400-500kNGN monthly , like seriously ?

Fake news. no senior dev will take that

Please be careful sharing solutions online, especially for the interviews and boot camp. People will plagiarise and present your work as their own. This could lead to you being disqualified without you knowing. I am only mentioning it because it happened and yes someone got disqualified.

Succeded on the 9th attempt . Committed to the cause, poverty the disease of the masses.

25,000 tried only 1 selected. Hard luck honey let's try again next year .

francoy007:


We just created a whatsapp Group for quick conversation , see the link below Join Andela Whatsapp Group

Prefix -chat.whatsapp dot com/the_code

Please note this is not an official Andela group, if you get to Bootcamp please do remove yourself from the group as anybody discovered over collaborating will be disqualified from the process.

If only our politicians had a tenth of this man's heart

In Nigeria, very few medical services are free of charge, and if you can't pay your hospital bill you may not be allowed to leave. Who will help? In this deeply religious society, many stranded patients hope for divine intervention.

Zeal Akaraiwai does not have the wings of an angel - he has a sleek black Mercedes, all purring engine and deep leather seats. This 40-something financial consultant - trim and neat - steps out of his car in a potholed government hospital car park in Lagos. He is greeted warmly by a team of social workers, and gets straight to business. He asks them for "the list".

Neatly printed on A4 paper are the names of patients who are well enough to go home. But they are not going anywhere, because they cannot pay their medical bills.

Zeal has met people who have been forced to stay on the ward for six - or even eight - weeks after they have been discharged. Some Nigerian hospitals set up instalment plans, but even the first instalment might be too onerous for those earning a pittance, or nothing at all.

Heading along crumbling walkways to the wards, Zeal listens intently to the social workers' running commentary about those he is going to meet. In a male ward the tiles underfoot are scuffed, the paint peels, and 20 beds line the walls. Ancient fans whirr overhead, and the nurses wear epaulettes on the shoulders of starched white uniforms. An orderly is sweeping up with a dustpan and brush. Everybody is doing their best in challenging circumstances.

The social workers guide Zeal to the bedside of a patient with a heavily bandaged thigh. He bends down close, and speaks in a low voice: "What happened to you?" The young man, a barber, says he was shot by he-doesn't-know-who.

"So how're you going to settle your hospital bill?" asks Zeal. "I'm praying to God," the man replies.

Zeal chats to him for a while - the man does not ask who Zeal is, and Zeal does not tell him. Then, out of earshot of the patient, Zeal checks the man's story with the nursing staff. The bill is $250. And the barber is in luck - Zeal will pay it. Later today, the patient will go home.

Zeal does not keep in touch with any of the people he helps. He does not even want to be thanked. But there is one thing he would like in return - that one day they might tell a story about him: the story of how when they were in hospital, an angel came, paid their bill and left.

"That's why I call this the Angel Project," he says. "Be the angel you hope to meet."

Paying the fees of hospital patients who are not able to settle their bills is one of the ways that Zeal realises his Christian faith. He says he wants to show people that everyone can do something to help someone else. Zeal's friends and family also give him money for the project, and he keeps receipts in a neat black book, together with details of the patients whose bills he's paid.

In the women's ward, Zeal is taken to see a patient in her 60s who is unconscious and on oxygen. She has had a serious stroke. The social workers want Zeal to pay the bill she has run up so far, so she can be moved to an intensive care unit for specialist treatment. He shakes his head, and moves away from her bedside.

Outside in the corridor, the woman's daughter joins him. She is young - and resigned. Zeal quizzes her about the health of her mother. It seems that even if the bill is paid here, it will be just the first step on a very long haul - if indeed the patient survives. Zeal speaks kindly to the young woman, and says he is sorry. She thanks him, smiles, turns, and goes back to watch over her mum.

Paying for this woman's treatment would mean breaking Zeal's own, self-imposed, rules - he does not generally help anyone with a serious, on-going condition. The Angel Project pays for those who are well enough to go home immediately.

"Of course, sometimes I digress," he says.


A child rests alongside a Bible in a Lagos hospital
He remembers Montserrat - a woman who bled for 11 months because she needed a hysterectomy. Zeal paid $400 for her operation. And on today's visit to this public hospital, there is a good deal more digression.

The Angel Project picks up the tab for a patient who needs a leg ulcer operation, and Zeal wants to know about the progress of a 10-year-old who is awaiting further intestinal surgery. He has paid for her treatment so far, and will continue to do so until she returns home. The social worker says the child is doing very well.

Zeal has met this little girl, but he does not want to see her again. "She has my son's eyes," he remembers.

Today, Zeal visits everyone on the social workers' list. He heads out to the cashier to settle the bills of eight patients. His hospital philanthropy always makes him feel sad, and he is angered by the failure of government.

"The mere fact an individual, like me, has to go into a hospital to pay the bills of people who are stranded speaks volumes about the injustice in the system," he says. "There's no reason why we cannot have proper health insurance. We have clever people who can think of schemes that can work."

In Nigeria only 5% of the population is covered by health insurance. There is scepticism about how a universal scheme might operate, given the huge disparities of wealth, and the millions of poor people whose contributions would have to be covered by the state. But Zeal is impatient.

"Every week I see the impact of not having compulsory health insurance, and people die. So where do you want to put the price of a human life?"

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46637822

Babadee30:

No.
Andela doesn't provide accommodation for bootcampers

They are looking to assist with this soon especially for non-Lagos folk. Probably next year

I heard there is a social at ibisHotel every Thursday i this true cos I want to check it out

Did you find any lol. We should just start one

Fake news if you know you know https://factcheck.afp.com/no-chinese-are-not-opening-police-stations-south-africa

Originality007:
in Nigeria having big tummy is an evidence say u don hammer

It is also an invitation card for diabetics and heart failure

naijanoni:
Hello guys.....
Would we be permitted to use JEST for testing in the bootcamp project?.
Or is it just Mocha/Jasmine that are permitted?

Mocha / Chai and Jasmine. Jest is better with React.

I got reported and blocked from this thread just for giving advice to future potential Andeleans . Anyway, I will reiterate you are not allowed to over collaborate by setting up whatsapp groups when you get to bootcamp, they are frowned upon. If these get discovered you can get blacklisted from applying to Andela.

This is my last post on this thread as I can see I have overstayed my welcome. As a current Andelean, I wish all who apply including the person that blocked me good luck in the process

sanpipita:
Nigerian men are still misogynistic and idiotic in 2018, most of them won't still mind dating Juliet Ibrahim, just a case of hating what you can't have

Makes sense . Let's talk true If she gives anyone of us chance unless you are gay.

backnbeta:
I was trying to look at cases of girl-child abuse in Nigeria for a journal article and I got much more cases than I ever imagined. Whats up with the prevalent rate of child sexual molestation in Nigeria these days? When will the issue of sexual abuse be treated as an emergency in Nigeria?

Look at this young girl now...First they killed her innocence, then they killed her body! This is so so painful to read!

I think it is because more cases are being reported

Remember what happened to Arik Air, this is following a similar trend. FG 2BN show us your Math

Funkypunky:
Cycle 36 ... please guys are we allowed to use CSS grid?

Yes, It is a layout built into the browser

flashBang:


Oh! you definitely don't know andela that much. if you finish the test very late, regardless of your performance, you will not make it in unless you are lucky that only few people finish before you and only few perform better than you.
it has been tried on multiple accounts with same answers and solutions to all questions. For the first test, only the ones that finish within 30mins to 1hr is more likely to make it to next stage.

As for second test, if you finish after 2hrs, your chance of making it drops tragically.

Want to know why? the questions have become repetitive and many people already have the answers perfected in advance and they just copy/paste.
After the test is scored based on performance, then there is a further cut-off based on time...... believe it or not.

When gold becomes common it loses its value. likewise, your performance means nothing when too many people are performing equally or even better.

Not true.... my qualified.io I took more than 2 hours in each of my tests. The qualified test took me 7hours However, you are right when you say the cutoff mark is probably high. As far as I am aware there is no cut off based on time.

Solomon27:
I was trying to make the input case-insensitive, so I tried:

if (response.toLocaleLowerCase === answer.toLocaleLowerCase)

Obviously didn't work!

Any suggestion?

Turn the input to LowerCase regardless and then now you know whatever you are comparing with is in lowercase or you can use regex ignore case.

princesweetman2:






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UPDATE: DUDES SENT CYCLE 36 IV CHALLENGE + APPLIED trim() method on isomorphic string sharpttttttttttttttttttttttly (OSHAMO).

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