stanliwise:
Those big companies you mentioned don’t have a lot of product in the market(I mean software market).

Many times they employ expert majorly for maintenance purpose and maybe a one off development team to build a product.

Many software dev in those company works are majorly expert level work and they don’t really have space to hire people to train or give space to grow, so many young devs don’t look forward to them except you have gained ground and your ready to chop money.

As a young dev startups can stress your life for peanuts but would give you a big room to improve your skill set and confidence. So starting out many devs look forward into them.

On a lite note another angle, start up give young devs insight about how company you see everyday are made and raised

CSTRR:

Oga, you are in Nigeria.

Go and learn PHP.

Karleb:


In all sincerity, there shouldn't be anything like old or new stack. But what I mean is, programming languages/tools that are no longer getting attention like before, e.g. C, C++, Jquery and the likes.

Even Java is not as popular as when we didn't have nodejs.

seunny4lif:
Well maybe in Nigeria because big companies in Ireland recruitment are like maddest
They recruit fresh graduates like mad
The top 20 best IT graduating students from my DCU and UCD always get job offers immediately from FB, Master Visa, EBay, Google and Microsoft.
Starting salary from €45K per year

Thermodynamics:

Why if I may ask, i don't want to waste my time learning python oh.
Please explain further.

CSTRR:

Python is a powerful language and is rising in popularity.

If you were in Europe and America, there are a lot of python jobs.

But in Nigeria, PHP is still the king.
It's old but it is more relevant in Nigeria.
Python is a recent language and is not yet very widespread in Nigeria yet.

You can learn python. It's an excellent language,but learn PHP too.

tensazangetsu20:
I don't know if it's just me or maybe my network but most Devs I know seem to be more crazy about working for startups than big multinationals. I mean people would prefer companies like paystack, flutterwaves and andela than working at places like British tobacco, ExxonMobil, shell, pwc, Cognizant et Al as Devs.

I see Dev roles regularly on this companies career pages but I hardly meet Devs who work in such companies.

Why are Devs so crazy about startups? The work is ten times harder, hardly any job security. You can be sacked at anytime. Extreme pressure and very horrible pay with no pension benefits or severance package.

DeeStarks:
We've always been told as junior developers to shoot for the stars.

In fact, I don't even think startups are for junior developers which are the top job seekers. I think it's best to start from a grounded company where you get the early experience you need from the seniors.
Going into startups will only assume you're an expert and you'll get paid way less than your worth

You are partially right as most web dev jobs in Nigeria use php or node sometimes, however, there are also some web dev jobs in Nigeria that use Django or Flask, hence, Python is not for only data science in any location worldwide.

Should i still keep learning Python?
Absolutely yes!

Should i also learn other languages and technologies?
100% YES!




If you really want thrive with Python, either get out of Nigeria or go learn Data Science and still get out of Nigeria after. There are companies outside this part of the world that want your python skill.
That's what I'm working on too because I'm a die hard python programmer, I do almost everything with it. But it doesn't seem there are much Nigerian developers who sees the power in Python. Same for Golang, that language is a beast

tensazangetsu20:

Python is way older than PHP sha. Like way way older.

sniperr007:


Me sef they find dev for my startup.

Better ones oh..

Thermodynamics:
I hardly see any thing about python in any programming thread these days, does it mean that python is obsolete? I'm currently learning python.

promisedeco:

I'm interested

Grandlord:


It's no easy, not even thinkable to change your codebase.
Imagine rewriting the whole software.

They may on the other hand, build new products and service platforms using newer technologies.

iCode2:
My man! How far nau? E don tey oo

Grandlord:


Mi brother!

You no dey online abi you change numbers? I don drop you message since na.

CSTRR:

Python has had more continuous updates than PHP, so in a sense it is recent.

Thermodynamics:
I hardly see any thing about python in any programming thread these days, does it mean that python is obsolete? I'm currently learning python.