GREATIGBOMAN:
Source?

Why did he stop the interview at Netflix if I may ask?
Since it seems he's catching fun by doing interviews.

And how come they all had Job openings at same time

GREATIGBOMAN:
Source?

Why did he stop the interview at Netflix if I may ask?
Since it seems he's catching fun by doing interviews.

And how come they all had Job openings at same time

InfinityFabric:
Of course High Frequency Trading will pay $800K, they make money by the nanoseconds. They don't joke around.
Almost everything they use is customized.

Yes, you're doing the front-end wrong. I doubt anyone will pay that much for UI.
To be fair, only few people are capable of the work required for that kid of salary.
Again, there are other ways to make money, and the money becomes mostly meaningless at a point in your life

SavageBoy:
Let's leave the salary for a moment.

That guy is not your regular software engineer. He's among the top 5% in the tech field. Just take a look at the companies he got offers from and their various salaries

A lot of people with twice the years of experience he has will not be able to command such an high salary.

Be it tech or any other industry you're in, you would be able to greatly monetize your skill and get very high financial reward once you're exceptional in your field. And being exceptional comes with an extensive period of intense hardwork and dedication.

Tech is the new oil, Yes, but don't go and run into it thinking you would be commanding 6-7figure salary within 1/2 years as a mediocre SWE

tensazangetsu20:

Honestly with big companies no one cares if you are frontend, backend, embedded systems or whatever.

The most important thing is data structures and algorithms. Grinding thousands and thousands of leetcode questions is the koko. They believe once you understand data structures and algorithms you can work in any software field.

A frontend software engineer might join a big company like google and start working on embedded systems. So long as you passed through that system they believe you can cope.

In this same nairaland someone is earning 33k USD per month. Another guy here in Lagos cause he knows elixir got a 400k usd per year job in the USA. He stays here in lagos at gbagada. Data structures is the koko. Nothing else is important.

InfinityFabric:

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Frontend is more replaceable than anything else.
It's like you've never written any production for embedded system and dealt with archaic OS/Firmware.


Shakes head for you.


Give us an example of that transition.


1.800K/12 = 66K/month
2. How many people on Earth knows Erlang and/or Elixir ?

Payment basically depends on the company's product, but it's so clear UI/UX, frontend guys are too much in the market than say system programmers.

tensazangetsu20:


Honestly with big companies no one cares if you are frontend, backend, embedded systems or whatever. The most important thing is data structures and algorithms. Grinding thousands and thousands of leetcode questions is the koko. They believe once you understand data structures and algorithms you can work in any software field. A frontend software engineer might join a big company like google and start working on embedded systems. So long as you passed through that system they believe you can cope.

In this same nairaland someone is earning 33k USD per month. Another guy here in Lagos cause he knows elixir got a 400k usd per year job in the USA. He stays here in lagos at gbagada. Data structures is the koko. Nothing else is important. I realised it so late and I am paying dearly for my foolishness. I could have been on 7k USD per month remote or relocation out of this shithole.

Think4Myself:

Big cap
No he doesn't

Brogrammer:
A Netflix engineer with 6 years of experience and 1 month of prep on leetcode, system design & behavioral interviews landed a job making $800K

He went through 7 interviews and received 7 offers from Airbnb, Google, Snap, Roblox, Stripe, AtoB, and Quant trading firm.

Below is what each company offer him:

AtoB - $325k
Airbnb- $450k
Google- $480k
Roblox- $560k
Snap- $576k
Stripe- $690k
Quant Firm- $800k

tensazangetsu20:


Hahaha when I posted that someone was earning 33k USD per month. The person earning such posted on the thread. People are making unbelievable money in this tech thing. Unbelievable money. Do you know that there are Nigerians that have from Nigeria gotten internships at this hedge funds. There was one a while back they were being 21000 USD a month for internship. People are getting insane jobs. I see It in the discord, Facebook and slack groups I am in now. In fact it's why I want to get Adderall so I can forego sleep for the next one to two years and study leetcode so I can get into a big company. Things are happening that you will never believe. Unilag boys are getting internships in companies like Goldman Sachs, bank of America, Bloomberg and google. I hear that leetcode is now a tradition amongst the engineering and computer science students.

Just study hard these jobs are there and the people getting it have one head.

Ebubu:


Please i want to go into tech.

I'm in the health field but i would like to switch or mix it up. More like eating ogbono and melon soup, but if i find my foot well in the tech I can switch fully.


I don't want to be one of the sheep in the crowd. Lots of tech guys already doing front end and back end. The sector these big balling guys you mentioned, learnt, is the sector I wanr to learn. Is there any problem dreaming big ?


So, since that is the case, what do i need to learn? leetcode ?

tensazangetsu20:
In fact it's why I want to get Adderall so I can forego sleep for the next one to two years and study leetcode so I can get into a big company..

Deicide:
Do they sell this drug in Nigeria? I hear most programmers use it a lot to gain competitive advantage in their place of work.

tensazangetsu20:


I am looking for it seriously. If I cant get it I am gonna smuggle it in. I don't mind foregoing sleep for the next one to two years to learn everything on leetcode. If I die in the process so be it.

Deicide:
Haba bro no kill yourself o

tensazangetsu20:


Get rich or die trying bros . Someone recommended weed but all the weed smokers I see are useless

tensazangetsu20:


You dont need to be amongst the top 5 percent to command such a salary. You can be a mediocre dev and get such high salaries. The skills to interview as a software engineer and the skills to actually be a good software engineer are two opposite ends of the spectrum. If you spend the time studying for interviews you will be able to get such salary but if you spend the time learning to be a good programmer you will be a good programmer but you will never make it into any of the companies paying such salaries. If you check that guys leetcode profile he might have solved every question there and probably just revises them whenever he has interviews.

Probably someone like alex wice https://leetcode.com/awice/. He has solved almost everything there and doesnt stay too long at any job. He earns more than a million dollars a year.

SavageBoy:


There are big possibilities with leetcode I must say

tensazangetsu20:


That's the way see eh. I am on discord groups. This white and asian kids use Adderall to Study leetcode. Once you take Adderall you brain works ten times faster and you become seriously hyperfocused. The competition is so intense. It's all they spend their time doing. I am studying with an Indian guy who's still an undergraduate. He's in level 200 and has done 720 questions. He just got an internship at cisco.

My own is that after work I am so tired and I can't do more than 3 to 4 questions so my progress is very slow. By 1 am I start to feel sleepy even putting water in my legs and trying to study doesn't work for me. I just wish I could loss the ability to sleep temporarily and still function optimally.

SavageBoy:


Chief no go take something wey go knock your head oh

Well thank God your mum is a doctor.

Maybe I'll just calm down and learn this tech thing for like 1-2years,no rushing; learn the web Dev technologies, study and get good with DS&A and solve tons of leetcode questions. By the time I'll be finishing, I'll be getting a first huge salary job.
As per applying the knowledge I've gained,I might work on personal projects and freelance.

E be like say person gats calm down learn this tech thing well before person go blow. All of us want leave trenches in six months na why we dey rush want learn HTML,CSS and JS in 3 months

tensazangetsu20:


Lol the Indian guy is just now learning html and css for his internship. He spent all his time learning algorithms and design patterns. Well it depends sha just get job you fit start with that html and css then when you get job you start dey learn those dsa cause dsa fit take you more than 2 years to get good. At least to be earning some money during that period. I don't know your situation. If your parents are very well to do and rucb then it's wiser to learn everything to get the high paying role but if you are from a poor family it's better to learn something that can give you a job at least and you can start learning the core things in that job. Imagine you dey learn dsa or design patterns and laptop spoil and You went through serious pain to even get the laptop

SavageBoy:


That Indian guy funny oh. Person never enter the main programming, he don't already start to dey learn algorithms.

For my case, I have a side hustle that's keeping me going unlike when man was broke and wanted to learn programming in 2 months. Due to the time demand and work project on ground,I haven't even continued the programming sef for sometime now.

I plan resuming next month, and will do so with full source
I think it would be a good idea to start learning DS&A immediately sef

InfinityFabric:

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Frontend is more replaceable than anything else.
It's like you've never written any production for embedded system and dealt with archaic OS/Firmware.


Shakes head for you.


Give us an example of that transition.


1.800K/12 = 66K/month
2. How many people on Earth knows Erlang and/or Elixir ?

Payment basically depends on the company's product, but it's so clear UI/UX, frontend guys are too much in the market than say system programmers.

tensazangetsu20:



Most of the algorithm gurus don't know anything about the real programming as you think. All the spend their time on is on algorithms unfortunately that's the skill needed for the job. Some start learning the real programming after they have gotten job and these companies are so big that no one expects you to make any impact till like 6 months after you have joined. Thats enough for any serious person to self learn front end and backend to start being productive.

SavageBoy:
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Wait oh!
I'm just hearing this for the first time?
How are algorithms the skill needed for the job?
And how would someone get a tech job with just algorithms knowledge??

Hannania:
No one is talking about their quantity, but the kind of company they work for. From your comment, it seems you don't know how much the base salaries of fresh graduates at FAANG make in tech roles. Their range starts from $250k total compensation(base, stock and bonus). This is irrespective of position.

And concerning what Tenza said about switching roles, it's 100% true. Just that it's not common for front end to move to back end. But they make it clear that you have to be ready to learn new technologies.

My Colleague who did an internship with Facebook recently, was asked to learn and build a source product module on Hack(Facebooks variation of PHP). The length of the internship was just three months, but he had 6 weeks to do that.

They will only do that because they know he has an IQ for that. That's how big tech operates

I guess you need to join Blind platform, to see compensation of engineers