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tosinhtml:
So this will be a post to further prevent online bullying which was evidently done by cixak95211 which used to be an Intern Team lead at Andela, please note the keyword Intern.

According to Linkedin, he got his first professional job in Software Development in January 2019 & later worked as an Intern in Andela which didn't even last more than 6 months. As at Sep 2019, he was still an Intern.

Everyday we come across bullies like this at our various workplaces and if we don't start exposing them now, we would eventually make life harder for newer devs in the Industry.

If you say you are a Senior, please have Senior Attitude.

cc: tensazangetsu20 and ClixMaster

tosinhtml:
So this will be a post to further prevent online bullying which was evidently done by cixak95211 who used to be an Intern Team lead at Andela, please note the keyword Intern.

According to Linkedin, he got his first professional job in Software Development in January 2019 & later worked as an Intern in Andela which didn't even last more than 6 months. As at Sep 2019, he was still an Intern.

Everyday we come across bullies like this at our various workplaces and if we don't start exposing them now, we would eventually make life harder for newer devs in the Industry.

If you say you are a Senior, please have Senior Attitude.

cc: tensazangetsu20 and ClixMaster

spartan117:
What do you mean nobody is using mongodb in production
Something I used this week

tensazangetsu20:
Tech

TheManOfTheYear:
Beautiful piece.
I agree with all you stated but however we should also look out for the technologies that would definitely be making waves in the near future..
It's all about good discerning.

tosinhtml:
So this will be a post to further prevent online bullying which was evidently done by cixak95211 who used to be an Intern Team lead at Andela, please note the keyword Intern.

According to Linkedin, he got his first professional job in Software Development in January 2019 & later worked as an Intern in Andela which didn't even last more than 6 months. As at Sep 2019, he was still an Intern.

Everyday we come across bullies like this at our various workplaces and if we don't start exposing them now, we would eventually make life harder for newer devs in the Industry.

If you say you are a Senior, please have Senior Attitude.

cc: tensazangetsu20 and ClixMaster

qtguru:
You have painted my pain point, I really hate this Document Object type of Database, we can wipe out all records in Firebase and have no idea what the schema could be like.

Enceladus is right , React not being opinionated is a pain point, at Interswitch 7 React Developers all write differently, one uses Saga thunk, the other uses another store management, then some Functional and some Class Approach, Vue and Svelte are one of those frameworks where you focus on the work than the engineering. Working on complex projects will expose all the pain points.

The Frontend is a mess, I will find my way soon to Flutter and Java World, even npm ecosystem is a fiasco, all it takes is to pull a bad package and you can spend the whole day finding out what the hell is going on.

jelel6:
I thought he provided solutions to some of your pain points? Hey, there are many tools for every problems nowadays, you just have to find the right tool to THAT WAS DESIGNED FOR THAT PROBLEM.

If MongoBd is not the best fit for your case problem, ditch it and used SQL or whatever tool you think is best. They are very different and meant to solve distinct problems.



The @bolded is why I decided to quote you...

There are many reasons why React is the most popular and demanded front-end framework today. And one of the chief reason for that is the fact that it is NOT OPINIONATED Hence, some of the best libraries and tools are built with the confidence that it is going to work seamlessly with React. The React ecosystem is as strong as it is because of its extra simplicity and flexibility. Not everybody likes to be boxed with what should be or shouldn't be done or used.

Now, to address your real pain with the React approach and the example you gave with Interswitch, I get your point 100%. React unboxed nature makes it easier to get into bad engineering practices. If what you alleged is happening at Interswitch is indeed true, let's call it what it is: Bad Software Engineering Practices. Don't blame it on React. I'm sure VueJs can also be paired with external State Management. If people can both use several states' management system for their part of the codebase using React because a company allows it, then they can and will do the same even if they use VueJs or Svelte or whatever.

Honestly, I struggle to believe that a company like Interswitch can possibly have Mobx, Redux, or ContextAPI hooks on the same codebase.

Don't talk like an ignoramus.
Have you ever heard of mongoose schema? Do some research on that it will answer your question.

Node JS thrives in data intensive applications not CPU intensive applications. If you have to build a CPU intensive app do it in another language not in node. But node is much faster and out performs languages like php for data intensive apps. So know when to use each instead of shunning one out of ignorance.

Thirdly React JS is still by far the most popular JavaScript library/framwork second only to JQuery and that's because of legacy code. And it still commands the most Job opportunities than the others.

My advise to you is don't follow the crowd to shun any technology try to understand it and know when to use it.

qtguru:
You have painted my pain point, I really hate this Document Object type of Database, we can wipe out all records in Firebase and have no idea what the schema could be like. That is quite accurate Node can't handle CPU Request, it's best for Real Time and Async, in that regard I will move to Spring or Go for speed, Node exceeds for most I/O operations. Enceladus is right , React not being opinionated is a pain point, at Interswitch 7 React Developers all write differently, one uses Saga thunk, the other uses another store management, then some Functional and some Class Approach, Vue and Svelte are one of those frameworks where you focus on the work than the engineering. Working on complex projects will expose all the pain points.

The Frontend is a mess, I will find my way soon to Flutter and Java World, even npm ecosystem is a fiasco, all it takes is to pull a bad package and you can spend the whole day finding out what the hell is going on.

Enceladus:
This first bit cracks me up lol . That is what op and every body is saying- donot follow trend !! Is mongoose not an anti-pattern to a DB that has Schema less as it's main selling point? Like why use NoSql and suffer extra pain when SQL has got you covered?

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spartan117:
You are still talking like a noob. If you don't know something go and do research and find out the advantages and disadvantages of using a nosql database with schema over an sql database.
You are not more knowlegeable or more experienced than the people who built it. Save yourself from this ignorance.

qtguru:
Nothing wrong with MongoDb, but I am using it in a project that has been enforced against my will, you know how things are , when you inherit projects.

That is true with React, not react's fault but React stands on it's own unlike Vue which has a suggested store to use and built by them, it's easier to lean into VueX than thinking of which Store to learn, if you get my drift.

Enceladus:
el maestro keep playing that card ( very ridiculous by the way ) instead of giving a sound response to a constructive criticism. Naija my country

tensazangetsu20:
You are right about knowing two backend languages. I recommend PHP and java to people. PHP for startups and medium sized companies and java for enterprise level companies. The same thing you say about Nodejs is what I got told about but there's so few node jobs out there. It's just hyped up. And PHP isn't relevant because of wordpress. There's other platforms built with PHP which are very complicated and aren't known by a lot of Devs but they are widely used. Theres Moodle, there's Magento. The list is endless. Those platforms are why PHP is the major backend for the web. Most of the top universities in the world have their websites powered up by Moodle. I haven't started learning PHP and working with wordpress and jamstack sites for up to three months and the difference in my life is clear. I am still a junior developer with less than one year experience but I am on my third remote job and recently just got another offer. So I work for two companies presently with less than one year experience. One of them is even a well funded startup in California. I am building out the whole website in wordpress and React. Their major product is not on their website so the backend is powered by WordPress.

Studymore123:
You write well but what I appreciate about you is you are willing to share your knowledge with others. That is highly commendable.
Good to know you're making progress in your journey as a developer. You may think your degree is useless but it's definitely is helping you in ways you don't realize.

For most Nigerians they only care about what brings food to the table and any IT skill that does that is cool. A guy in Abj rakes in 2k monthly on graphics design without knowing a single line of code. So I also advise everyone to just niche down and follow what works best for you.

One piece of advise is for you to know that public articles are subject to criticisms. Some will benefit from what you wrote while others will disagree and even abuse you.

How you respond to these demonstrate your soft skills. Pls note that developing soft skill is also very important, I've been in few interview sessions and sometimes not the best person technically is employed.
In my previous job our best Engineer got fired because of a slight brawl in the office.

Pls learn to be calm under provocation, that itself is a life skill.
Rgds

Karleb:
@cixak95211

Come and say something

tensazangetsu20:
Tech is honestly the best industry to get into right now. The opportunities are numerous. Almost every job vacancy out there is tech this tech that, developer this and developer that. I stayed in school for 4 years studying for a useless engineering degree and I have never in my life seen a vacancy for the rubbish I studied but there are tech roles every day. But in spite of so many jobs in tech, a lot of new developers struggle to get opportunities. I started being active in the tech community recently and I am meeting developers who have been coding for 5 to 7 years but have never had an opportunity. Talking with them has led me to discover that it's actually not the tech industry but a few of the reasons I am listing below.

1. You follow the trends: A lot of us developers love to focus on the sexy trendy stuff. Newsflash, what is sexy and trendy isn't used and even when used is used by very few companies. So millions of people who have struggled to learn the sexy stuff are all going to fight for those few roles out there. Take for example the latest coolest CSS framework tailwind. It's really cool and hyped up and it's like the go-to framework right now but the thing is in the industry people are still using bootstrap. People are learning tailwind but they don't know the number one CSS framework out there. Just because something is cool and sexy doesn't mean that everyone is going to switch to it overnight.

If you give junior developers a chance between Angular, React, and Vue. A lot of people are going to pick Vue. They will say it's sexy and cool and has a ton of GitHub stars. There are jobs using Vue but they are so few compared to React and Angular that you would be pigeonholing yourself by learning that. Theres a whole of difference between coding for fun and coding to get a job.

2. You have unrealistic expectations: This is something I usually see on Reddit cscareerquestions but it seems to becoming a norm amongst everybody. People believe that if your salary isnt starting at 100k USD a year or you dont work for a tech company, you arent a developer. Its so elitist and unfortunately a lot of developers in Nigeria are beginning to have this mindset. They learn HTML, CSS, JS. They have built absolutely no projects but because someone said you need the knowledge of DSA to get a job they immediately start grinding leetcode day and night with the hope of getting into Google. You learnt to code from a Udemy course and you really want to compete at DSAs with people who went to MIT. People who have been doing competitive programming since 5 years old. People who get gold medals at the international olympaids of informatics like its nothing. . Funny enough, I also had this mindset when I was learning to code but corrected myself later on. The truth is that not every tech job out there tests with DSA or needs knowledge of DSA and not everybody must work for a big tech company. This reasoning is so flawed. It is like saying every lawyer must work for law firms like wale olanipekun and co or every engineer must work for exxonmobil. There are a ton of jobs that will pay you well as a junior developer like really well and you need not struggle to get them. They wont test you with DSA. They would only look at the complexities of your projects and go through them with you. By well paid I am talking of 500k and above. Ask yourself how many people asking you to do DSA in Nigeria have not yet worked at Google. There are even whatsapp groups dedicated to DSA and if you cant solve one you are kicked out. The person giving you DSA is not working at Google or Facebook hmm give yourself a brain o.


3. You do not know how to cut off the bullshit from social media: There's so much information out there today but if you don't know how to cut off the bullshit from what you need, you would waste your time. A lot of influencers and creators are putting information out there for themselves. They follow the algorithms and put out what is going to give them the most value in terms of money for their time. If I put out WordPress content, nobody will watch it but if I go out there and make MERN stack tutorials I would be getting millions of views but to be truthful you do not need the MERN stack as a junior. No one is using MongoDB in prod. Very few websites use Nodejs. You are just limiting yourself with that. If you want to be a full stack developer look at things like C# and Java springboot. Those pay really really well and there are even certifications you can acquire in those frameworks that can help get you opportunities at enterprise companies that use them especially if you don't have a computer science degree.

4 Your projects are not worth paying for: People put out calculators, todo lists, tictactoe games and a lot of bullshit on their portfolio and wonder why they aren't getting interviews. You have applied for 100 jobs and haven't been called back and you absolutely do not know the reason why. Nobody is going to hire you with a to-do list and a calculator on your portfolio. Even if you get an interview, is a calculator something you are going to show your interviewer. What happened to making a social media application, a chat application, a blog, an analytic tool, a dashboard. Something that people actually use in the real world every day. I remember one of the first interviews I have, one of my projects was a payment application I used paystacks API for. Everything was done with HTML, CSS and Javascript and once my interviewer saw the project and the button I used to connect the API, he made an offer to me immediately. Your projects matter especially as a beginner. One solid project is better than 100 garbage projects.

5 You don't research: Honestly, in this tech thing, I take what everyone is saying as bullshit. The senior developer I work with an Australian guy was telling me to learn web assembly if I really want to get a job with visa sponsorship which I so desperately need. I am tired of remote especially doing it from this shithole zoo of a country. I went to Linkedin Jobs and various countries indeed websites and I couldn't even see up to 500 jobs total in web assembly. Why would I waste time learning something that has no jobs because it might be relevant in ten years. Nodejs came out in 2009 and it is still not relevant in 2021. What is the probability that web assembly will be relevant in 2031. Research. When people tell you to learn a technology. Go to linkedinjobs and indeed and check how many jobs exist for that technology worldwide. People always advise you from their own point of view but the point of view of a senior developer in America, Europe or Australia is not the same for you a junior developer in the world's poverty capital.

Tech pays provided you do it right men.

ClixMaster:
Just imagine . And he was here wishing fellow man's parent dead.

tensazangetsu20:
And he said he has 10 years experience. At least I wear my junior status like a badge of honour.

tosinhtml:
So this will be a post to further prevent online bullying which was evidently done by cixak95211 who used to be an Intern Team lead at Andela, please note the keyword Intern.

qtguru:
cixak95211 it's not fair to attack people anyhow you are not as untraceable as you think.

Rossnitti:
Go fck yourself.

If you gonna denigrate Nigeria to make your point, go and eat shiiit.

Asswipe.

cixak95211:
Did I commit any crime that would make me go into hiding?
I have a youtube channel, my face is everywhere on the internet if you dig just a bit deeper.
Cheers.

cixak95211:
Now let me reply to you properly.
1. I was not hiding, if not I wouldn't even paste screenshots.
2. Just hate revealing too much information until when necessary
3. I presume you did not only see Andela there but saw others you chose to ignore and ONLY posted what would suit your arguments. Shame on you.
4. A team lead is a team lead, be it under internship or not, what matters is that I have led people who I am very sure are way better engineers than the aggrieved tensazangetsu20. A tech lead is a tech lead, be it under internship or not. Shame on you once more.
5. I have been a Tech Lead for 2 years plus at a job, I know you saw that, but chose to ignore it once again to buttress your arguments. Shame on you.
6. Not one, not two, not even three lost their jobs at Andela, it is not a hidden story. If I would still be there by now, I doubt it. Highest I have spent at a job was 48 months (2 years) before it gets boring and I switch.

So what the fuss were you trying to say? joke's on you fucker.
Please come again loud and clear this time.