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mdeeokoye:
So i will share my experience. I got in Oct 17th 2020, I happen to be a software engineer and i can say that there are lots of opportunities in Software engineering once you know the craft and got some good experience. I got in on a Saturday and started applying on Monday lol. I enrolled and uploaded my CV in Total Jobs and edited my CV and took out the locations from my work places (watched this from a video and felt it made some sense) but my last role as a Software Engineer in one of the Big fours and a dev project for a US firm i added the location because i felt it will stand out.
I had a family friend that got me a GifGaff SIM the weekend i got in because i felt they will call. On Monday i received lots of calls and started interviews the next day, interestingly most of them went well, for those with software experience just study algorithms and data structures, although different firms have their own type of questions. One of the recruiters i spoke to that day said she has a role that just has two stages of interview and they are one of the big players in the Insurance sector in Uk and US, i saw the JD i loved it!, did the first interview, it was a Q&A with their Head of Engineering and some senior engineers, i was struggling to hear some of the questions but again they were not so difficult i did well and they scheduled the next day for the final phase which was a coding test to be submitted in two hours and i did it before the allocated time and went into a Pair Programming exercise and as God may have it also went well. We discussed salaries and they gave me an offer on Friday same week and i resumed 2nd December.
I recently applied for NI so the HR said that would not be a problem as i should update it on the portal once its ready. About my experiences so far, its been an interesting one even though we are all working from home due to the lockdown and most developers are scattered around the country and it seems to be a work fr
om home policy till june next year i think.
Lastly i was specific about the firm because they are amongst the list of firms that can provide sponsorship and we spoke about its possibility next year. If you are a developer i think you will do fine in the UK! Cheers!!!

Congrats bro, would like to ask for your option and advice for someone who's 30+ in age going to start Bcs in computer science afresh for the purpose of being a software Engineer or Data analyst can the person cope considering the fact that he doesn't have any knowledge in computer or programming at all.

thanks for your reply.

Monmarri:
Hello house pls how will home office find out or is it possible for home office to find out.

A friend of mine came on a six months visiting visa here in the UK and she had overstayed for 8 years, she told me that immediately she came to the UK, after one month she stayed and she DHL back her passport to her home country and her elder brother who is an immigration officer working at the airport stamped entry visa for her, just like she came bk home. Meanwhile, since 8 years now her passport is in her home country. So she said she left UK early this year with emergency traveling document. She also got married here in the UK to a British citizen, my friend is back to her home country and wants to apply for spouse visa, I asked her if she will use a lawyer bc of her overstay and the passport issue, she told me NO, that UK immigration will not in any way find out, that she is smart and has manipulated the system, no immigration will find out. I was shocked and I told her to declare it in her application, that she will cut. I am so afraid for her that she might be cut and banned . Pls house kindly advise. Thank you

She should be open, honest and declare every bit of the overstay in her spouse visa application. I would suggest she gets a good UK immigration solicitor who are used to writing these kind of letters. She isn't the first or the last to overstay. However, she will be among the few who choose to be honest about it when applying for a visa, this should give her a few points in my opinion. The worst is that she will be initially denied, she can alwys appeal it. She will be granted eventually as long as she has no criminal record besides the overstay.

Monmarri:
Many thanks for your time. I appreciate. Thank you.

Some do get married and home office will not find out. I have a friend who told me she came to the UK and stated 3years as overstayer, got married and she keep applying to home office and she was getting refused. Later her lawyer adviced her to go back to home country and apply for spousa visa, which she did and she got the visa last year, She is now in the UK. Some can be lucky to get married.

I agree with you but the problem with her story is that her passport is in Nigeria. So what documents did she use at the marriage registry?.
Documents for proof of identity in registry is ur passport to show your nationality...

That story get K-leg jor....
let me go look for something smoke jor

Monmarri:
Many thanks for your time. I appreciate. Thank you.

Some do get married and home office will not find out. [b]I have a friend who told me she came to the UK and stated 3years as overstayer, got married [/b]and she keep applying to home office and she was getting refused. Later her lawyer adviced her to go back to home country and apply for spousa visa, which she did and she got the visa last year, She is now in the UK. Some can be lucky to get married.

You alone ohhh...
You have 2 friends.
Both of them overstayed.
Both of them got married.
One listened to her lawyer and she somehow ‘escaped’
The other is now trying to do what the first one did.

As a friend to both of them, all you need to now do is to connect the one to the other and let the other tell the one how she did it, and escaped.

Check your database, you probably know a third friend who overstayed for 12 years and is now married to a British citizen.

Monmarri:
Many thanks for your time. I appreciate. Thank you.

Some do get married and home office will not find out. I have a friend who told me she came to the UK and stated 3years as overstayer, got married and she keep applying to home office and she was getting refused. Later her lawyer adviced her to go back to home country and apply for spousa visa, which she did and she got the visa last year, She is now in the UK. Some can be lucky to get married.

The type of friends you keep though.

wallg123:
I agree with you but the problem with her story is that her passport is in Nigeria. Do what documents did she use at the marriage registry?.
Documents for proof of identity in registry is ur passport to show your nationality...

That story get K-leg jor....
let me go look for something smoke jor

If you find an, Biko pass me 1 wrap.
If wrap no dey, I fit share 2 drags...

RalphJean:
You alone ohhh...
You have 2 friends.
Both of them overstayed.
Both of them got married.
One listened to her lawyer and she somehow ‘escaped’
The other is now trying to do what the first one did.

As a friend to both of them, all you need to now do is to connect the one to the other and let the other tell the one how she did it, and escaped.

Check your database, you probably know a third friend who overstayed for 12 years and is now married to a British citizen.

Oboy too much wisdom go kill you one day oh
change ur name to SOLOMON becuz you too wise

@ Monmarri

I have been reading your posts for years here and 8 at of 10 of your posts here have always been about fraudulent activities or questionable circumstances. Is either your friend from another country or family member is abusing the system and you will come here to seek for advice on how to go around the system. This has to end today. Nobody here is your partner in crime.

Take a break from this section.

Good morning everyone. Please I need your advice here. I have a BSc in Microbiology, one year work experience as an administrative Assistant ( NYSC). 21years of age. Please will you advice me to go to the UK for masters in International human resources management or process PR to Canada. What can I do to boost my CRS apart from French which might take long time.
I'm thinking of applying for PR from the UK after mater's but I don't know how hard that will be considering Part time job can't be counted as part of work experience.
Please advice me house process PR to Canada to just go to the UK for masters. Thank you

mdeeokoye:
So i will share my experience. I got in Oct 17th 2020, I happen to be a software engineer and i can say that there are lots of opportunities in Software engineering once you know the craft and got some good experience. I got in on a Saturday and started applying on Monday lol. I enrolled and uploaded my CV in Total Jobs and edited my CV and took out the locations from my work places (watched this from a video and felt it made some sense) but my last role as a Software Engineer in one of the Big fours and a dev project for a US firm i added the location because i felt it will stand out.
I had a family friend that got me a GifGaff SIM the weekend i got in because i felt they will call. On Monday i received lots of calls and started interviews the next day, interestingly most of them went well, for those with software experience just study algorithms and data structures, although different firms have their own type of questions. One of the recruiters i spoke to that day said she has a role that just has two stages of interview and they are one of the big players in the Insurance sector in Uk and US, i saw the JD i loved it!, did the first interview, it was a Q&A with their Head of Engineering and some senior engineers, i was struggling to hear some of the questions but again they were not so difficult i did well and they scheduled the next day for the final phase which was a coding test to be submitted in two hours and i did it before the allocated time and went into a Pair Programming exercise and as God may have it also went well. We discussed salaries and they gave me an offer on Friday same week and i resumed 2nd December.
I recently applied for NI so the HR said that would not be a problem as i should update it on the portal once its ready. About my experiences so far, its been an interesting one even though we are all working from home due to the lockdown and most developers are scattered around the country and it seems to be a work from home policy till june next year i think.
Lastly i was specific about the firm because they are amongst the list of firms that can provide sponsorship and we spoke about its possibility next year. If you are a developer i think you will do fine in the UK! Cheers!!!

Do you mind if I ask what the salary range was? And where the job is located?

,That's how to determine what doing fine means

Lexusgs430:
You dey find expo.........

Is it bad ni?

nihilistjnr:
Do you mind if I ask what the salary range was? And where the job is located?

,That's how to determine what doing fine means

Hmmn...so you want to judge what is okay for the nairalander now.

Not even a congratulations.

nihilistjnr:
Do you mind if I ask what the salary range was? And where the job is located?

,That's how to determine what doing fine means

For now, I don't think the salary really matters for someone just coming in to the country. Getting your foot at the door and getting the Uk's experience is very important.

Sent u an email

topellycategory:
Hi is it possible for me to get #20,000 in exchange for pounds if is not too small.

Exactly! Most salary they offer can sort you out for a month comfortably depending on your life style though.

ThinkPad01:
For now, I don't think the salary really matters for someone just coming in to the country. Getting your foot at the door and getting the Uk's experience is very important.

Salary range for Senior Developers and Mid-Level Developers is transparent for most roles as you will see them in the Advert, even though you can negotiate for higher pay. All depends on what you want and your experience. The office is in Lancashire

nihilistjnr:
Do you mind if I ask what the salary range was? And where the job is located?

,That's how to determine what doing fine means

All i can say is you graduated early o

You can go for Msc and still process PR if you wish.

For some of us, going to the UK is to start off.

Lets journey together.

marybolaalonge:
Good morning everyone. Please I need your advice here. I have a BSc in Microbiology, one year work experience as an administrative Assistant ( NYSC). 21years of age. Please will you advice me to go to the UK for masters in International human resources management or process PR to Canada. What can I do to boost my CRS apart from French which might take long time.
I'm thinking of applying for PR from the UK after mater's but I don't know how hard that will be considering Part time job can't be counted as part of work experience.
Please advice me house process PR to Canada to just go to the UK for masters. Thank you

I think just as in every field you can always learn and i don't think there is an age limit to it. Programming can be a self taught approach so i advice you learn a-lot by practicing before you even start your BSc here. You can get courses from Udemy or go for internships/bootcamps and the likes you will do fine. Data Engineering is also the real deal now there are lots of opportunities as well!

Ijomobi:
Congrats bro, would like to ask for your option and advice for someone who's 30+ in age going to start Bcs in computer science afresh for the purpose of being a software Engineer or Data analyst can the person cope considering the fact that he doesn't have any knowledge in computer or programming at all.

thanks for your reply.

I am more of .Net MVC,.Net Core,Angular and React Js guy. Honestly i think there are lots of roles for different stacks. My coding test was to analyse a set of data, create a schema around it, perform some CRUDE operations around it, created a UI and there were marks allocated to proper coding standards around it and further additions and effizy you can add that earns you extra points. But the Q&A was alot around .Net/ Core, Architecture and Behavioural questions.

Braket:
Thanks for the update. With the job ads I'm seeing, there's a lot of opportunities in the uk software sector. Not surprised you finished recruitment within two weeks.

Do you mind stating your stack and what the coding test you did entailed.
It will be really helpful.

ThinkPad01:
For now, I don't think the salary really matters for someone just coming in to the country. Getting your foot at the door and getting the Uk's experience is very important.

This is where you're grossly mistaken.

The IT market right now is generally in a state for great depression.

The guy that is just coming from Naija is probably looking at the job offer and mentally converting the sum to Naira and thinking "wow this is great"

I would like to get a sense for is whether the salary was actually market rate for the region.

nihilistjnr:
This is where you're grossly mistaken.

The IT market right now is generally in a state for great depression.

The guy that is just coming from Naija is probably looking at the job offer and mentally converting the sum to Naira and thinking "wow this is great"

I would like to get a sense for is whether the salary was actually market rate for the region.

Sincerely speaking I like your reasoning and this shows you are quite experienced in the job market.

Salary matters and your starting salary really affects how quickly you rise in the job market.

I remember someone back home rejected a 40K job last year and decided to remain in Nigeria as a senior lecturer. When I told my former boss that this guy wasn't interested he was aghast - but I'm paying him 40K. I was like sir he is married with 3 children!

Anyways, for a start you sometimes have to start somewhere.

ThinkPad01:
For now, I don't think the salary really matters for someone just coming in to the country. Getting your foot at the door and getting the Uk's experience is very important.

I totally agree, salary doesnt matters for a new comer .... especially in the IT field. UK experience is everything. If the amount offer is enough for you or your family now then go for it

Just get the experience and then you can move up to higher and better .

The key is you dont remain there forever, once you have that Uk relevant experience or the ILR you need, you can command the salary the next person is getting

mdeeokoye:
I think just as in every field you can always learn and i don't think there is an age limit to it. Programming can be a self taught approach so i advice you learn a-lot by practicing before you even start your BSc here. You can get courses from Udemy or go for internships/bootcamps and the likes you will do fine. Data Engineering is also the real deal now there are lots of opportunities as well!

Thanks for your reply.

mdeeokoye:
I think just as in every field you can always learn and i don't think there is an age limit to it. Programming can be a self taught approach so i advice you learn a-lot by practicing before you even start your BSc here. You can get courses from Udemy or go for internships/bootcamps and the likes you will do fine. Data Engineering is also the real deal now there are lots of opportunities as well!

Are there boot camps in nigeria .....

Andela use to have tech bootcamps, not so sure if they still do it. There is a talent accelerator programme that Decagon does that pretty much is like a bootcamp. There might still be a few.

LagosismyHome:
Are there boot camps in nigeria .....

Yes. Andela used to but not sure is they still do.
Findworka still did the last time I checked.

LagosismyHome:
Are there boot camps in nigeria .....

Uk new immigration rules:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-55157816.amp

mdeeokoye:
Andela use to have tech bootcamps, not so sure if they still do it. There is a talent accelerator programme that Decagon does that pretty much is like a bootcamp. There might still be a few.

Thanks and thanks Mimilyrics

AbokiFX has corrected the exchange rate error.

There’s a disparity of 65 between buy and sell rate. This is the largest disparity I have seen.

Congratulations and thanks for sharing. I hope to arrive in January for a masters in Software Engineering.

mdeeokoye:
So i will share my experience. I got in Oct 17th 2020, I happen to be a software engineer and i can say that there are lots of opportunities in Software engineering once you know the craft and got some good experience. I got in on a Saturday and started applying on Monday lol. I enrolled and uploaded my CV in Total Jobs and edited my CV and took out the locations from my work places (watched this from a video and felt it made some sense) but my last role as a Software Engineer in one of the Big fours and a dev project for a US firm i added the location because i felt it will stand out.
I had a family friend that got me a GifGaff SIM the weekend i got in because i felt they will call. On Monday i received lots of calls and started interviews the next day, interestingly most of them went well, for those with software experience just study algorithms and data structures, although different firms have their own type of questions. One of the recruiters i spoke to that day said she has a role that just has two stages of interview and they are one of the big players in the Insurance sector in Uk and US, i saw the JD i loved it!, did the first interview, it was a Q&A with their Head of Engineering and some senior engineers, i was struggling to hear some of the questions but again they were not so difficult i did well and they scheduled the next day for the final phase which was a coding test to be submitted in two hours and i did it before the allocated time and went into a Pair Programming exercise and as God may have it also went well. We discussed salaries and they gave me an offer on Friday same week and i resumed 2nd December.
I recently applied for NI so the HR said that would not be a problem as i should update it on the portal once its ready. About my experiences so far, its been an interesting one even though we are all working from home due to the lockdown and most developers are scattered around the country and it seems to be a work from home policy till june next year i think.
Lastly i was specific about the firm because they are amongst the list of firms that can provide sponsorship and we spoke about its possibility next year. If you are a developer i think you will do fine in the UK! Cheers!!!