Frantz Kati
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Udemy instructor with 75k+ Students 🎒 I will teach you to build a successful career in tech 🤝 I talk about growth and standing out as a software engineer
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The Best Strategy to break into tech in 2023 is Open Source. Announcing The Complete Guide To Open Source Course. - 100% free.- Practical Examples.- Find real projects.- Less than 1 hour. Comment "open" below and I will DM it to you. (must be following)
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I remember staying 4 months without curtains at my first home I rented, because of sapa. Fast forward ~7 years and I effortlessly paid ~20m to rent and furnish a 4bedroom duplex. In one go. Seems like a long time, but it's not. Success will come in tech. If you persevere.
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I made ~$140k from my salary as a software engineer this year alone, living in Lagos Nigeria. It took me 8 painful years to get here. I'll teach you exactly how to get there in 4 or less:. This'll change your life. Stop scrolling and read the practical steps:.
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I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my software engineering career. If I could go back, there’s a lot I’m going to change. Here’s my top advice for anyone building a career in software engineering: Thread 👇.
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Thinking you’ll get into tech and land a remote job in 6 months.
What is Delusion?.
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Finally, the fastest route to growth as a frontend dev:. The Level Up Front Hackathon:. - ₦2 M Prize Pool.- 33 Winners.- Only HTML, CSS & Js. Prizes:. 1st: ₦500k.2nd & 3rd: ₦250k each.13th - 23rd: ₦50k each.23rd - 33rd: ₦25k each. Join for free:.
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You're job hunting in 2023 with this kind of Github profile ?. Most newbies don't even understand how much work it'll take to actually succeed at this tech thin.
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Frontend engineering tip: Convert at least 60 Figma designs to HTML & CSS before moving to learn Javascript. Pixel perfect responsive design is your first responsibility as an engineer.
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My journey in tech:. Year 1 - $0.Year 2 - $1k.Year 3 - $1k.Year 4 - $10k.Year 5 - $70k.Year 6 - $110k.Year 8 - $140k. I beg you with everything I have. Just don't give up after year 1.
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I've landed dozens of remote 5-6 figure remote job offers in USD in the past years. And I'm going to teach you exactly how. My step by step guide to landing a remote job that pays in USD. 🧵.
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Same company that celebrated my birthday on Zoom slapped me with layoff 2 weeks later. Where you work is not your family. When things get dark they will remind you where you belong.
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Frontend engineer in 2010:. - HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery. Frontend engineer in 2023:. - HTML, CSS, JS.- React, Redux, React Router, CSS in Js.- Typescript.- Eslint.- Prettier.- Webpack/Vite.- Testing.- Git/Github.- Ally. It's a whole new game. Make sure you're playing it right.
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Mentee of mine joined a company as junior dev. Pay: 50k/m. First week at work: They called her on Zoom at 2am. A married woman. Gave her query for not attending the call. Second week they fired her for underperforming. This is not Nigerian movie.
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Your dreams are very valid. At 22 I was:. School drop out.Live in a 1 room.From Cameroon - 10x worse than Nigeria. Chief justice of Sapa.Coding 28h a day. At 27 I:. Live in a duplex.Earn 6 figures in USD in Nigeria.Travel twice a year. Yours will come soon. Just don't give up.
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Dropped out of Year 2 electrical engineering course in Cameroon and relocated to Russia to study aeronautical engineering. After 3 years and so much fun, I dropped out again to move to Nigeria and pursue a career in software engineering. I had no idea software engineers made a.
What's your Backstory?.
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Someone asked me why I'm extremely good at what I do. I answered:. I'm not smart. I just do one thing 377 times until I can do it without thinking. Repetition is the key to success as a software engineer. Feel like you understand it now?. Do it again. And again. And some more.
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I interviewed 300+ developers during my 2+ years at Turing. 90% of candidates were pretty much the same. The remaining 10% who stood out had one thing in common:. I call it the "Awesome Developer Vocabulary". 5 words to impress any interviewer and make them love you: 🧵.
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Sit on your computer 3 hours a day, for 6 days a week for the next 2 years, change the next 40+ years of your life forever. The question is, are you willing to change your life forever?.
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It's finally here ! . The World Class Software Engineering Roadmap for 2023. What you'll get:. ✅ ReactJS Frontend Roadmap.✅ Python Backend Roadmap.✅ NodeJS Backend Roadmap.✅ 100% free courses . Comment "roadmap" below and I will DM it to you for free. (must be following)
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Just crossed a $100k on Udemy. And I haven't created a new course or recording in 3 years. You do not need anyone's permission to create success for yourself. Go get it 🚀
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My first dev salary was "Take this TFare to go back home, and thanks for your work". My second dev salary was 83k Naira/ Month ( USD $180.33). My latest dev salary was $11k USD/Month (Excluding side income). Create a kindness and value driven career and money will come 🤝.
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There are 2 types of Nigerian tech companies. The top 5% like Paystack, Andela, Cowrywise, Piggyvest. Top culture, Top career growth. The remaining 95% are extremely bad for your mental health and career. Worst interviews, poor salaries, zero growth. Avoid the 95% at all cost.
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Doctors after 8 yrs in school: I will make it 🙏.Pilots after 6 yrs in school: I have faith 🙏. Software engineers after 3 months of learning coding: Where is my 6 figure remote job 😠💢😡.
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As an African breaking into tech in 2023, what does it take to build a successful career in tech ?
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Listening to Amapiano while you work is killing your developer productivity. Wizkid is not coding music.Skelewu is not coding music. Stop spending 3 hours working on something that could take you 20 minutes.
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Open source will change your life as a techie. I know this because it changed mine. Unfortunately a lot of developers do not know how to make valuable contributions that create huge impacts on their careers. Here are 4 practical steps to get you started this year:.
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I interviewed 300+ developers during my 2+ years at Turing. 90% of candidates were pretty much the same. The remaining 10% who stood out had one thing in common. I call it the "Awesome Developer Vocabulary". 5 words to impress any interviewer and make them love you: 🧵.
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How I landed an interview at a $30m startup based in Germany . (While living in Lagos Nigeria)
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Tech is hard. Maybe they told you something else. Maybe you clicked an ad for US citizens talking about landing a job in 4 months. Not in Nigeria, and not in Africa. It's extremely hard, and only the relentless make it in the end. I hope you're prepared.
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Certificates won't help you in this current job market sha. Your shiny Udacity Frontend Engineer Master Doctorate would still collect rejection. Same thing with your first class.
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Whenever you think you're not smart enough for this tech thing, just remember me. I have to watch a video at least 5 times before the concept sticks. Then write the code 5+ times again. But I'm doing great. Businesses pay me thousands of dollars a month. They'll pay you too.
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Yes, frontend is very saturated. But again, it's so easy to standout by becoming a master of what most people don't even care about:. - Performance.- Accessibility.- Automated testing.- Design systems.- User experience. Master 3/5 of these and you're at the top of the game.
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I came with bad news, but truth. There are almost no entry level jobs in tech right now. But that’s not the worst part. Even the mid level and senior jobs are extremely extremely hard to get. So I’m sorry, but it’s gonna be hard for a very long time 😕.
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Nigerian tech companies:. - Position: Junior Frontend Engineering Intern.- 3yrs React Experience.- Salary: 45,000 Naira.- Interview: 9 stages.- Take home challenge: Build Uber in 2 days. Please, be careful where you work. Some companies out here can murder your mental health.
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Mega thread on how to land open source remote internships that pay in $3,000 - $10,000 USD. Best part, they happen many times every year, and are 100% beginner friendly. 🧵.
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Not to brag, but if you learn to code from me, in 2 years you become a beast. - 18 weeks of HTML, CSS & Figma.- 100 React components .- 10 portfolio projects.- 3 Open Source projects for 6+ months. I don't believe in smarts. Consistent hardwork on the right thing always wins.
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It's finally here !!. The Software Engineer Growth Tracker. A powerful notion template to track your growth and level up your career in 2023. I'm sharing this free for a limited time only. Reply "growth" below, and I'll dm you the download link (Must be following to receive)
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Programming has a way of making you feel really dumb. I'm a Senior Frontend Engineer and I have my extremely dumb days. If you're learning to code, no matter how you feel, just keep at it. One day, just like magic, everything just clicks.
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If you want to land a remote job that pays in $USD, open this thread:. 🧵.
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Them: Bro you earn six figures in USD ? While living in Lagos ? You're lucky o. Me: Remembering how I worked 16 hours a day and cried real tears for 30 minutes every night before going to bed. 🙄. Success is not stumbled upon. It's earned and paid for.
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Everyone is getting into tech. Literally thousands of people. Question: What are you doing to stand out and have a career that competes globally ?. Answer: Do what no one else is doing. 3 things to standout in tech that 99.5% of others are not doing:.
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Everyday in my DMs:. Frontend dev: Frontend is saturated. I need to do backend. At the same exact time:. Backend dev: Backend dev is saturated. I need to do frontend. Stop thinking which career path is saturated. Pick one, grind until you make it. Everywhere is hard.
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90% of this generation "software engineers" learn frameworks. But cannot build a simple program in a vanilla programming language. Stop rushing to learn skills for jobs. Fall back and master your fundamentals. Become a programmer before you become a software engineer.
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~9 years ago client hired me to build a drinks online store. After:. - 3 months of coding 15 hours a day in PHP.- $49 to buy HTML theme.- Missing lectures to finish the app. I contacted client again and he said he's now into logistics. Made $0. Lesson: Collect down payment.
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Tech in the USA is not tech in Africa. 99% of tech career advice in the USA will fail completely in Africa. You will not land a big tech internship.Your first job will not be a $60k role.You will not get an internship in 4 months.Prepare to job hunt for at least 6mths to 1yr.
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If you're in Africa, you're wasting your time and energy applying to remote jobs that are not "Remote global" or "Remote anywhere". Sometimes you receive 99 rejections and actually deserve 88 of them because you didn't read the job details to know they only hire from the US.
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After 1.5 years of hitting my keyboard, tons of research, late night snacks, and some tears, I am super excited to announce the birth of my new project @tenseijs . An open-source headless CMS for the future 💜❣️💜 . 5 things Tensei will do for you 👇.
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Manage your expectations please. You're not landing a $100k/yr remote job with 2 years of experience no matter how good you are. It took me 6 years to land my first. Your target should be $40 - $50k if you have less than 5 years of experience. Calm down. Money will come.
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Before you land your first job in tech, create your own internship by:. 1. Applying to paid open source internships.2. Cold outreach to Non profits.3. Form a team and build world class portfolio project. Don't wait for opportunities. Chase them until someone gives you a chance.
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Land a job in tech in 2023, 2024, or 2025. 1 year of non stop learning. 1 year of non stop building. Open source, startups, portfolio, anything. That’s 2 years of sacrifice before you land your dream role. Would you be patient and play the long game?.
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Nigerians work hard mehn. 50 people online at 3am writing code for the hackathon. I promise your hard work will pay off. I promise you it's not in vain ❤️
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Building a career in tech is tough. But once you land your first real tech job, the only regret you'll have is wishing you started sooner.
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I've spent a lot of time leading teams, training over 65 thousand developers via online courses and mentoring dozens. Here's a guide on how to move from mid-level developer to senior engineer in 2021:. Thread 👇.
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Avoid these 3 mistakes when applying to remote jobs from Africa: 🧵.
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5 years ago I was earning 80k Naira a month. Today I earn 5 times that a day. This was my profile picture on Facebook 5 years ago. Don't joke with Sapa, because Sapa is not joking with you. Work on your career. It'll pay off.
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As a beginner in tech, stop job hunting with zero evidence of skills. Your certificates, your todo apps and Netflix clone are near useless. Build real things, create real business value, then spend almost all your time searching for jobs through back channels.
Job Hunting 101:.Let’s hear it 🤲.
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The average salary of a software engineer is $120k/year. But only available to those in the US. Right ?. Wrong. The world is remote and global now. If you want to build a six figure tech career from anywhere in the world, open this thread 🧵:.
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I've landed dozens of remote 5-6 figure remote job offers in USD in the past years. And I'm going to teach you exactly how. My step by step guide to landing a remote job that pays in USD. 🧵.
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I've prevented exactly 13 people from dropping out of school to get into tech this year alone. Your bachelors degree with a great GPA might be your ticket to Japa out of this country. Don't rush. Build your career slowly but strategically.
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Don’t venture full time into tech if you don’t have a sponsor or partner to support you. My first 3 years of tech my parents lended me money multiple times, if not, sapa for break my back. If you don’t have the support, do tech part time till you’re ready.
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To become a frontend engineer in 2023, the landscape has changed. It's no longer just React. It's now:. - Typescript.- Next.js (For react devs), Nuxt.js (For Vue devs).- SSR, SSG, CSR.- Vite.- Testing Library, Cypress tests. 90% of frontend jobs use at least 2 of these everyday.
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Someone read my newletter. Landed a job that pays $60k / year. Her previous job was $10k/year. That's a 6x increase just by listening to the things I said and doing them. I made sooo many mistakes in my career. Please don't make the same mistakes. I'm here to help 🙏.
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Will never forget how I built an entire e-commerce site in 2013 for this dude in Kenya. 3 months coding 15hrs a day in PHP. Even spent my last $49 to buy HTML Theme from Themeforest. Only to show him the app and he said he's now into logistics. Has it happened to you too ?.
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Find a company you want to work at. Find their Github. Start contributing while expecting nothing in return. Fastest way to grow your tech career and chances at landing a remote job in 2023.
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Why didn't anybody tell me that you actually need side income to do this tech thing successfully ?.
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Dear newbie in tech, stop trying to figure out which part of tech is not saturated. They are all extremely hard to break into. Just find something you're passionate about, and consistently hustle at it for the next 2 years. Success will come.
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Here's how we magically improved the performance of our web app by 100x:
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Most successful software engineers I know:. - Aren't that smart.- Don't have Computer science degrees.- Don't have 20 yrs of experience. They are just regular people putting in 100x more work than others. Take one action step everyday and guarantee your success.
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Most people are not learning frontend engineering. They're learning Html / Css / Js. The engineering part is about solving frontend related problems like performance, security, conversion and user experience. Don't just code. Solve problems.
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To become an all round world class software engineer, you need more than just coding. Here are 5 non technical skills that will make you a better software engineer:.
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All of you learning Javascript for 3 months and immediately jumping into React. Don't worry. React will humble you and send you back to Javascript. Master your fundamentals or struggle to get work done your entire career. The choice is yours.
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8 years + in my career and I've never failed the first stage of an interview. Why? . Because I know and understand how to answer the most common job interview question of all time: . "Tell me about yourself.". 📌 Here's how to prepare a great answer:.
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Spent 4 years dabbling around in tech. Why didn't anyone tell me it was a tough journey ?. Everyone's saying learn to code and land a job in 6 months. Reality ?. Study endlessly for 1 - 2 years, do free work to show your value, then 6m+ hunting for your first job. Be prepared.
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8 years as a software engineer and I still run away from all tasks that have anything to do with dates and timezones. Mentorship lesson 101: Run away from dates 👍.
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Junior developers 🤝🤝🤝 Learning React before Javascript. Please calm down. Becoming a software engineer in 4 months was all a lie.
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Find a source of temporal income before getting into tech in Nigeria. Better still, don't quit your job yet. If not, as you learn Javascript, SAPA will remove the knowledge. I wish someone told me I won't get a job in 6 months. Sigh.
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2 years into programming, and you don't understand the fundamentals of how the Web works . And that's perfectly fine. I wrote Javascript promises for 6 months and never understood a thing. But I kept shipping till I understood. You'll be fine. Keep learning.
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Me chatting with newbies:. I do React: Nice. I do React, Python: Hmm, also okay. I do React, Python, Vue, Laravel, Product Mgt, UI / UX, Data science: Welcome Mr Confusion. Being in many domains at the same time will not bring you more success. Start with one. Master it.
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Last month alone I reviewed over 20+ resumes from developers looking to land a remote job in 2023. Here's the top 4 mistakes you are making when applying for jobs and how to fix them. Start getting more interviews almost instantly:.
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Reality in tech right now:. You're either extremely good at what you do, backed by great communication and the ability to sell yourself, or you're mediocre and struggle for years to succeed in tech. This is your wake up call to be the best. Not good, not average. The. Best.
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Lies on the internet about building a career in tech:. - Learn to code.- Apply for jobs.- Make money. Painful reality:. - Learn code.- Open source.- Apply for jobs.- Rejection.- Technical writing.- Freelance.- Apply for jobs.- Rejection.- Do Free work.- Apply for jobs.- Get job.
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Dear developers, when you want to write code, spend the first 2 hours reading the code, understanding it, and planning your approach. You'll write the solution in 15mins. If you jump into writing code first, you'll spend hours and go nowhere. Secret hack to be world class.
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Dear newbie developer. Your peers are your first line of networking. The friends I made in tech 5 years ago are the big shots you see in tech today. And they're always a phone call away. How can you start tech 3 months ago and you want to grab a coffee with Adora ?. Na wa.
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ALX Africa alone is training over 30,000+ Nigerians to start a career in tech in the past 2 years. But, if you check Software engineering Jobs In Nigeria on LinkedIn, there's just 400. Indeed has just 300. What does this mean for your career in tech ?.
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Will be launching the best tech community on the planet in a few days. Here's what you'll get:. 1. Monthly hackathons.2. Weekly seminars from global experts.3. Daily career advice.4. Tech support for your career.5. Free.6. A lot more. Interested ?. Fill the form below 👇.
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I was making $500 - $900 from technical writing alone 2019 and it protected my life from sapa. Follow these simple steps if you know at least 2 technologies in tech:. 1. Take Google Technical writing course.2. Write 4 quality articles.3. Ask a mentor to review.4. Apply for jobs.
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I've mentored and guided a lot of amazing folk to become software engineers, and 90% of them drop out or don't make it. I realised its because they have very wrong ideas about this industry and how it works. Here are my top 5 myths about being a software engineer. Thread 👇👇.
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I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my software engineering career. If I could go back, there’s a lot I’m going to change. Here’s my top advice for anyone building a career in software engineering: Thread 👇.
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5. 🤟 Found this thread helpful ? Please follow me, and retweet to help someone out there. Thanks for reading ! 🙏.
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When I was learning to code I got very frustrated when I couldn't remember the names of functions or definitions of words like HTTP. Until one day my tech lead showed me how he searches google every 5mins while working. Don't strive to memorise. Understand and google the rest.
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Frontend engineer in 2023:. - HTML, CSS, Js.- HTTP, REST APIs.- Typescript (YES !).- React / Vue.- Next / Nuxt.- Vite or Webpack.- Tailwind.- Eslint / Prettier.- Jest, Github Actions.- Vercel/Netlify. Learning these become much easier when you understand the problem they solve.
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Mistake 95% of newbie frontend engineers make:. Learning frameworks before mastering the fundamentals of frontend engineering. Here are 5 things you should master before jumping into any framework:.
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If you’re new to coding and not from a technical background and having a very hard time going through ALX, don’t feel bad. It wasn’t created for you, but for people with at least one year of coding exposure. I made all my mentees drop out of it and join Alt school 💁.
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Unpopular opinion. React is not hard. You just don’t know JavaScript Yet 🤷♂️.
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Why you shouldn't get into tech:. - It takes too long (~3years).- It's hard and stressful.- High competition. Why you should get into tech:. - 50x your salary.- Go global. Relocate or Work Remote.- Flexible lifestyle. I made my choice 10 years ago. Today I'm enjoying the benefits.
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If you're breaking into tech here's a realistic career roadmap:. 1. Learn the core skills.2. Hustle for open source paid internship.3. More open source.4. Solid portfolio projects.5. Volunteer at non profits.6. Start job search. Realistically, this is a 2 - 3yrs journey.
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