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Hey devs,

I’ve been grinding as a frontend developer for a while, and I’m at that stage where I’m asking myself: am I actually mid-level, or still junior?

Here’s what I bring to the table:

Promoted from intern to intermediate frontend dev at my current role

Solid with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and Vite

Comfortable with Framer Motion for clean animations and UI polish

Experienced building CRUD apps and working with RESTful APIs

Built an estate management website with an admin dashboard (CRUD + API integration)

Confident with Git/GitHub and deployment on Vercel

Have a portfolio site (currently revamping it)


What I’d love some advice on:

From this experience, do I stand a chance at mid-level roles, or should I still apply as junior?

What gaps should I focus on before confidently branding myself as “mid-level”?

Any tips on how to stand out more (projects, networking, open source, etc.)?


I don’t want to overshoot and get crushed in interviews 😅 but I also don’t want to undersell myself if I’m ready for more responsibility.

Would really appreciate your honest thoughts 🙏

Sakamoto days >>>>>>>>> Kaiju no 8

AfDapone:
Go to Koyeb, if your work is not task heavy like run browser in docker image. or use their paid service.

ok bro. Imma check ✔️

simplesol:
Chat me up -08-033=05-05-77

Please sir, for what ?

qtguru:
No-code, Virtual assistance, Social media manager, the thing is not just looking for skills but knowing how to research, let me search my video will help you.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLuiKHRI4M&t=1331s

Sir please about this No-code tech, I have been looking to upskill and I have been looking at learning vue.js buy will you recommend a no-code tech stack. I have noticed it's not very popular among devs like thatttt

Please programmers In the house, I have been trying to put my work out there, so I found vercel. I created an account on vercel buy it showed not successful so I thought that was all only for me to try again and see that the account has been made. So I also tried to login but it showed that account does not exist. I have checked all through. Please I need your help 😢 🙏 😔

Miramonica:
OP, since you're new on Upwork, I suggest you download geepay Africa from Play store.

No withdraw your money from Upwork directly to your Local bank account, Upwork rate is low.

Geepay currently exchange $1 for 1,701naira.

Just signup on geepay, register for a US account number, you'll get a virtual Wells Fargo account number, link it to your Upwork, that's all.

Make sure the name you use in your Upwork will be exactly the name you will use to open account on geepay, if not you will encounter difficulties withdrawing your money.

Okay, but is using wise also good ?
I just registered on wise so should I delete it and just use geepay ?

Natbrowny:
Na ABU. Public University

Omoh

Natbrowny:
I did during my days with some lecturers and dey understood me straight up. Even encouraged others to take notes using technology to their advantage.

I use my phone, not even a laptop. We even shared pdf files about the lecture to ease comprehension.

Though - students tends to misbehave atyms by doing some other things with their fone and not even paying attention (discipline)

But been a smart dude, i took my notes and anoda tabs of sportybet is ready for use. That very day i took notes, used my own understanding for some terms and lecturers requested for my version to use for anoda group he wants to lecture. I still chop my 10k that day ontop sporty.

Na smart students dey use expo pass exams. Dullards won't relate.

Plus we never ripe for this country both as students and lecturers. Students wont pay attention coz they'll be on social media, some lecturers haven't upgraded to use laptops, projectors and the likes.

Must have been a private university

Woah, that is impressive 👏, Hats off. I also just started upwork recently so let's see how it goes. Also any tip you have will be very useful #programmertoprogrammer

Jivi:
Is the software engineer salary range for Nigeria on google accurate?

Not really that accurate, they give an estimate.

MindHacker9009:
Okay you are now the spell checker bot on Nairaland.

Sorry Sir, if you are so knowledgeable I don't think you would have made such a mistake oh

Alphabyte3:
Facebook and X is built with native on Kotlin and swiftUI. It might be faster but Cross- platform and native has pros and cons. Some special features is harder to implement in Cross-platform because it is limited.

But cross platform language actually are very advantageous to new systems

MindHacker9009:
I should be asking you instead. All these Maths bots on Nairaland that has no where else to use that Maths they have been cramming, but have decided to come and be disturbing us real programmers here. If you beleive you are a good Mathematician go and invent the next super operating system better than Windows or Linux and leave us real programmers and Software Engineers alone to face real life programming projects.

I admit i may not be Alan turing, but atleast i know well enough to proofread and spell check everything before i post

MindHacker9009:
DSA can be applied to all software development projects and it's not only for mathematician's problems, so you are the one so far off. Most complex programming projects you'll find in the real world will be something like this one below and not A/Level maths or Bsc Maths problems.

Programming only require good logical thinking and not A/Level Maths or Bsc Maths.

Implement a piece of online software suitable for use by a cinema. The system should be
capable of providing information about films currently showing, and of the availability
of seats in the cinema. The system should allow for seats to be booked either
individually or as a block. For example a block of 5 seats would require 3 adjacent
seats to be booked together.

Whats up with you and this problem, you just keep bringing it on (hope i am not talking to some kinda bot)

princely4ever:
that's me

Web dev or app dev

emee701:
HTML CSS reactjs and nodejs for webapp.
Java, kotlin, swift for mobileapp
Mysql and mongoDB for database

Are people still using kotlin and swift when there are other better and faster cross-platform languages like react native and flutter ?

Shomek:
What about this ? Ask it about this example: shomek from nairaland.
<your username> from nairaland
Check the result

As i said, it just recycles what is on the internet. So it is just as if you searched it

mrkings84:
But he is actually trying....
I am so impressed with it's performance

Sorry to be that guy, but it does not have a gender, so it is simply referred to as "it"

Shomek:
The problem is most of us don't read the terms and conditions.
All the information meta ai has was taken from the internet.

But the data is not majorly used for anything other than just for Ads

mrkings84:
This sounds bulky and vague to a common man like me... Can't you make it simpler

It just means that the "AI" you were conversing with is just a series of algorithms which was trained using a lot of data/information (big data) so it may have gone through alot of users personal chat to understand pidgin, along with alot of resources from the internet through social media apps. So, in theory, it is just recycling everything it saw on the net

Shomek:
You are right, but meta ai is stealing our content online without our permission

Actually, it is with our permission. Those terms and condition includes that

silento:
Nothing concern success of a product with programming language, you are already on the wrong path

Not necessarily though, using modern languages and frameworks makes for an attractive UI and a general faster service which might contribute to it's success

Yes, for modifying and implementing new and pre-existing features