₦airaland Forum

TheTraveler:
Season greetings.
How is your new work going, boss?

tensazangetsu20:
Me ambassador ke. I hated that shit like crazy and started seeing why it's important while working. I even fought someone on nairaland sef cause of DSA

tensazangetsu20:
Omho DSA hard but the good thing is if you master it. You and poverty can never know each other in life ever.

Think4Myself:
I want to be like you once I graduate
Few questions
Are you a react native developer?
Is react native similar to react?
How did you learn react?

LikeAking:
I want to be like u.

How many days will i fast and pray?

tensazangetsu20:
They wont deliver. DHL or whatever shipping company will connive with customs to fleece you. No be today the game don tey.

tensazangetsu20:
Get a third party person once they see a macbook they would conclude you a yahoo boy and they will ask you to settle EFCC, NDLEA, Customs. Infact all the security apparatus will open office on your head for that mac.

tensazangetsu20:
Well my own company wanted to ship but I told them to send me the money to buy me the things instead. Not ready for customs wahala but its really common sha nowadays. If you leave the job, you don't need to send them back as those things are chicken change to oyinbo.

longlife101:
It will be nice if you can share tips on helpful LinkedIn profile, or how your LinkedIn profile look? -any heads up?

kennethfranc:
If am the one, I will go for the new jobs coz you might still find better working environment compared to your current job.

Pls I wan ask
Since its a remote job, can't someone work for two different companies?
Pls someone should ans me abeg

tensazangetsu20:
Omho I would follow the money and it's in pounds not dollars. One pound is 700 naira. Bros shebi you said the industry is saturated yet CEO's are reaching out to you on LinkedIn. I wish you can know what other people in other fields are seeing with regards to finding work.

Felixitie:
Omoh, if I was in your shoes I would take the new offer after spending a month at current job. Except if the salary package does not really make much difference otherwise na to gbe body!

Alusiizizi:
Virtually every developer from under-developed countries make the same mistake that you made, myself included. Deal with it. $800 a month in Nigeria in such a desperately dysfunctional economy puts you in lower big boy status. Not yet a big man, but you can get there by always keeping your eyes on the next level up. Learn, learn and keep learning. And with the next gig that you come across, triple(quadrupule) your demand. I work on a freelance basis, and when I started, I was doing about $40~$50 per job. Now, I have many steady clients that pay very well and I don't give a second glance to any new jobs that don't have at least $400 attached to it. You'll get there.

africonn:
Congrats sir,kindly share your linkedin profile, let's learn

Lindner:
This has been a challenge since the beginning of the pandemic. Most western companies are simply exploiting hires from third world countries. They get the same value(sometimes, better) in terms of skills for less. I work remotely with a US based tech company and I see this all the time.

Sometimes, we make it easy for these employers to exploit us as well by setting the bar too low. You already have an idea what a company based in Europe is expected to pay for your level, just simply ask for that. Perhaps, you were too desperate.

I've seen highly skilled people from African countries being offered as low as $800 per month. I even spoke to few during our paired programming sessions what their expectations are if they were to get a new offer. None of them is expecting to be paid above $1.5k whereas their counterpart based outside of Africa is demanding for $4k cos he knows what their law says.

Don't worry bro, get the experience and launch out again. And learn the art of negotiation.

olubantylove:
OP, can you help with any info on getting remote jobs especially outside Nigeria?
And can I contact you?

Anonime1105:
For the past one week i have been stuck with the design phase of my portfolio, writing the code is not the problem here but getting a modern design.
I've tried my hands on Adobe XD and Figma but I always end up deleting everything I design because I feel none is good enough

tensazangetsu20, ReactJs, qtguru, Karleb etc abeg make una help me with suggestions.

thanks in advance.

Karleb:
No vex if my tone sounds harsh. That's not how I mean it.


You wouldn't even get a decent backend developer job in some companies even in Nigeria these days if you're not conversant with microservices.


I want to disagree with this statement.

Apart from using Docker and doing the usual git branching, Git merging, approving Pull requests which isn't Microservices, I think very few, I mean very few companies in naija uses this microservices thing.


If I am wrong abeg correct me.

Karleb:
Microservices are overrated in a way.

Most companies using micro-service architecture started with monolith, when the code base became large, they switched to Microservices.

There are a lot of applications making cool money using monolith. E.g Nairaland.

So stick to monolith, most people don't expect you to tear their app into Microservices. When you get employed by a FAANG comapny, study your Microservices.

As per cost, it's not worth it.

While you are shouting Docker, Kubernetes, clusters and all those gibberish, Another dev would just open cpanel, dumb the code and deliver to client.

chineduuf:
Saw this after typing a whole note. This is the last time I am ever trying to draw the line between the two, they just hate the fact that real and grounded CS graduates are preferred at the top and makes more. They can continue competing with the worst CS graduates and feel that's what CS encompass.

thesicilian:
Bad advice. First you can learn to code while studying whatever course in the university, and second, being without a university degree in this country will rob you of countless opportunities, don't let anyone deceive you.

tensazangetsu20:
Op I don't believe in the university like you but dropping out is a foolish decision especially for a Nigerian. Don't allow yourself to be deceived that degree is important even if it's a third class degree. No one cares about your grade just have a degree.

You can take the risk if you plan to stay in Nigeria working for max 300k a month or some remote jobs but if you want to leave Nigeria via means of work you can't bypass any developed country's immigration without a degree. It doesn't matter what your degree is in or what grade you have. Just have a degree.