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tensazangetsu20:
Do you know what it takes to export anything from Nigeria. Easy to say so on the internet but very impractical in reality.

orjohn24:
teacher, be careful of weak advice you dey give people because you no dey canada and you never enter and stop giving fake hope , l dey here 3 month now and l never smell constant job ….it not easy and forget tech you dey preach ,a person that get tech skill needed in canada no go come with tourist dey hustle lmia, ..people are losing job in canada too and. Student dey hustle job too and this canadian People too like document, my guy dey usa without doc he dey work but here in canada na war everything na doc even to rent house ..if you no get document it extremely hard to get any job and that lmia story na fake story to me until l see one Nigerian that get it and show me!! And if you coming canada better look for where you go put head as per accommodation becos it expensive and immediately ur money finish, hotel go throw you out . people go just come online turn motivational speaker untop things you never experience !!!

Nbv1:
OMG , 200cad bro wtf no cheaper joints

tensazangetsu20:
Brazilian passport allows you to travel to over 170 countries visa free likewise Uruguay, Chile, Argentina. Poor Peru has around 132 countries and their citizens aren't struggling for American visa like us. Google the university of Sao Paolo. It's the best university in Brazil. Check the ranking globally.

SalamRushdie:
Don't be deceived it's your 20 thousand Euros they want

victorVIC1:
Dude responded to my enquiries here with his phone no and I thought I should check out his page before chatting him up only to find out he's responding on enquiries from different forums pretending he's in those countries. I thought it was necessary I flagged it here. If you think what I've done is wrong, that's your business. Atleast people here can approach with caution

maestro03:
Unless you pay for priority for the dependant as well.

Thegamingorca:
The dependant's decision will come out within 9 days

giselle237:
formal complaint is not an appeal. Not the same

tensazangetsu20:
It's not a CV thing. Job no dey. Someone even raised this up yesterday about schools in Nigeria continuously training up people when there are no local opportunities

tensazangetsu20:
Damn where do you guys get this optimism from

bodmas8080:
I have gotten an offer to University of Hull, September intake... Let's be friends if you're going to Hull.

Rhamzy94:
Send your number please.

Rhamzy94:
Good Evening Everyone,

Please who has admission into Liverpool Hope University here? Or who has an experience with their admission process?

I got a conditional admission for MA Social Work. The conditions are satisfactory medical and DBS, copy of passport and IELTS. I sent them my IELTS test report form since 23rd February and I’ve not gotten a response from them since even after sending follow up mails. They haven’t sent me any information about the medical and DBS and I’m at loss with proceeding with tuition deposit or not.

Please is there anyone who knows how their process works?

maths1000:
I'm in Rwanda currently DM me

tensazangetsu20:
And I even heard that patronising hookers or prostitutes especially in countries like Canada can lead to jail term for like 10 years. Even the police go on the road to pose as prostitutes to catch people.

tensazangetsu20:
If you have rare skills like high end programming skills you could apply and get a job from Nigeria. The other alternative is to migrate as a doctor or student, Delft University is generous to sub Saharan student

tensazangetsu20:
The almighty Google o. Hmmmm and companies that people looked down on are even giving bonuses. Mercedes Benz just paid all their devs 7000 euros bonus. Apple isn't laying off and didn't lay off in 2001 and she's seen as the least prestigious amongst the faang.

It seems the faang hype might die down after all these layoffs. I really pity those from third world countries who are on H1Bs. It's 60 days to find a new job or go back home. For Nigerians that can mean a possibility of coming back to emilokan God forbid sha.

jesmond3945:
yes, a nairalander is working

Hannania:
Follow the part Bellow:

1. Learn the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.(Not indept, but basics. On a scale of 10, It should be 5,5 and 6 respectively).

2. Pick up Java. Don't compromise the basics. Learn the syntax and semantics well.

3. Pick up Spring/Spring Boot Frameworks(Understand the MVC)

4. Learn a database. MySQL is ok.

5. Learn Unit testing (This will set you apart and get employers interested in you)

6. Learn Maven, Hibernate, JPA and Maven(These are just implementation processes. Don't be scared. After you learn the basics, you can pick this in 3weeks)

7. Most important part: Build at least two solid projects that implement all the above. Two sold projects are better than vague 10 random projects.

8. If you want to stand out as I did, write one cloud certification. Got Google's scholarship and wrote GCP, and did Microsoft 30 days challenge and got a discount of Azure, which I paid just $40(17k). This will make you irresistible.



All this looks like a lot, but it's what I did in a space of a year. Now our IQ might differ, but dedication and commitment can be the same.

When you do no 7, follow this site to apply for jobs. 2 months after your projects and you'd get a remote pay of $1000 minimum from Poland.

https://justjoin.it/offers/infolet-junior-java-developer-krakow

jesmond3945:
Yes. This is their job board justjoin dot it. As you can see they have over 17000 vacancies in IT alone. With Poland work experience you can work anywhere ln europe

tensazangetsu20:
God have mercy. Abeg is it same for all the countries abroad. What of those in Mexico, Brazil and co. Shey they fit see place to easily choke preek sha.

Hannania:
Your dreams are valid, but it seems you have too many dust. Let's clean it up.

1. An OOP hard core language is the bane to work at FAANG. Python, C++, Java are the norm. Meta will get you to learn Hack, which is a variation to PHP.

Please don't learn multiple languages randomly. Stick to one for learning DSA, and use Javascript/PHP for your web dev.

2. Don't waste inefficient time solving questions randomly. It's always good to see what others have donr successfully, and replicate it and even better.

Try and learn the fundamentals of all data structures first. Coursera has nice courses that teaches fundamentals. The reason why whites and Asians are good with cracking FAANG is because they have solid fundamentals. Use the linked below to get same resources schools like Harvard, Berkeley, and MIT train their students:
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Courses/CS61B/


There are about 17 patterns of which 90% of Leetcode programming questions are centered on. Know such patterns, and you'll find ease of solving the rest.
https://github.com/cl2333/Grokking-the-Coding-Interview-Patterns-for-Coding-Questions

When I started leetcoding few months ago, it was overwhelming. So I stopped and asked people I have as connections on linked who work at Google, Amazon, Dropbox, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir how they did it. They showed me the path to learning patterns, and right now, I could easily solve 2 questions a day on a medium like question on the 9 patterns I've learnt so far.

Follow this link for a detail guide:
It has 120 questions which cover all 17 patterns.

https://bowtiedfox.substack.com › fa...
10 Step Guide for Literally ANYONE to Land a 6-Figure FAANG Job.


When you've down the above, please check this link below on structured guide depending on the time you have. For 3 months plan, there are 75 questions, they call it Grind75 or Blind75. But when you edit the site for a six months plan, you get 169 questions. More indebt and enough to help you crack any interview. Here is it:

https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/grind75?weeks=12

3.Concerning buying leetcode premium, please don't pressure yourself. Every question on leetcode premium is on github, solved or on youtube.

For Cracking the coding interview, check the link below with solutions on github. The readme has links for java,C++ and python.
https://github.com/careercup/CtCI-6th-Edition

The link below has all leetcode premium questions for virtually every known company that uses DSA as a test. Don't get overwhelmed, most repeat themselves.
https://github.com/hxu296/leetcode-company-wise-problems-2022



These days, I don't solve questions on leetcode, rather I created a repo and keep track of my work while solving the patterns on my laptop.

Good luck lad

tensazangetsu20:
Not all the thing is with internships people only think large product based companies. People are still getting good offers based off what they know. The thing no get manual. As for big tech, I wont even bother with them until the economy recovers. Layoffs everywhere and more are coming. Peoples offers are also getting rescinded.

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.

tensazangetsu20:
I posted this topic earlier but it got removed by the anti spam bot.

A lot of people are learning to code and why not. It's the best Industry to get into right now. Aside a ton of jobs, there's also a lot of ways to make side income as a developer. It's an amazing skill set to have that can produce a ton of value both for an individual and for the general society at large.

However, a lot of people aren't getting jobs easily especially junior developers. The Industry is very brutal to beginners so if you are a beginner you want to be strategic in your learning and what kind of jobs you apply to. Your goal at the beginning is to get into the game and start getting paid.

This list doesn't apply to you if you love the latest tools and frameworks. This list also doesn't apply to you if you love deep computer science fundamentals. If you do go learn some C++, master all relevant data structures and algorithms and go work at Google and build out tools for we mere mortal programmers. For the rest of us who are coding to get a job and make some bread fast then this list Is for you.

1. Wordpress theme: WordPress powers up 32 percent of the internet and is not going anyway anytime soon. Everyday millions of wordpress websites are launched on the internet and it's the go to technology for marketing agencies. Knowing how to build custom WordPress themes would easily enable you get jobs as a developer in a marketing agency as they are always getting big time custom jobs and not a lot of people know how to do this presently. If you are the type that hates PHP, be aware that you can build a wordpress theme with React and Gatsby using the Gatsby source wordpress experimental plugin.

2. Wordpress plugins: what better way to validate your knowledge as a full stack developer than a wordpress plugin? This shows that you can build a whole useful application on your end. An amazing thing to have on your portfolio. As a developer that works with wordpress a lot of your job will be extending functionalities to current plugins and building new ones and this project let's your potential employer see that you can do just that.

3. Shopify theme: Shopify is the second largest e commerce platform in the world. It's the go to platform for small businesses with regards to e commerce. Shopify developers are Increasingly in demand in agencies worldwide. It's not taught anywhere so if you want to learn this technology get ready to grind it out on the Shopify documentation. Knowing to build out your own Shopify themes set you ahead of the pack in regards to Shopify developer jobs.

4. Shopify application: same reason as wordpress.

5. Magento theme: Magento is the world's largest e commerce platform. It's used by medium sized to really big businesses. It's a very complicated platform and due to its complexity most jobs require that you are Magento certified. According to Magento, we have just two certified Magento developers in Nigeria. What better way to prove your competence in a complex platform if you aren't certified by showing off a theme you made in that platform.

Bonus

Real estate or e commerce platform with laravel. If you are a junior developer that went one-step further to learn laravel then you might consider building an application of this sort with it. I usually don't advice people to learn laravel even though it's based on PHP and beautiful to use. It's the most popular backend framework and a junior would be competing with a senior for a lot of jobs. However, a complex project in laravel would get you interview calls and you never know when one of those interviews would turn into an opportunity.

You don't have to go out and build really complex projects. You would burn out. For the wordpress theme you could take a really basic blog, style it and make it beautiful and responsive across all devices. For an application you could take an external API and build something in wordpress with it. For instance you could use the paystacks API to build out an application to check if account numbers entered into a system are valid or not.

Once you have all your projects ready. Get your resume done and begin to apply to jobs like a mad man. It's relatively easy to get jobs in these technologies even remotely as absolutely no one I repeat no one wants to work with them.

Remitush:
I have complied over 30pages of companies globally that are remote-job friendly. Let me know if you want them