It’s tricky as I’m just starting to consider this career, so may not be familiar enough with it or far enough along with my planning to be usefully concrete. It partly depends on where sensible places to start are with my level of professional experience and knowledge (not negligible, but never fulltime webdev). Pick an example: a junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire. The requirements for that might be illuminating.
I would second Ben’s statement – if you have actual experience coding you’re probably overqualified for “a junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire.”
A clarifying question: When you say “builds websites for hire” I think “set up a boilerplate Word press installation with some stock photos to impress the rubes”. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean “create highly interactive single page websites that need to scale to millions of concurrent users”? Those are very different things.
Maybe if you gave a salary target that might help us calibrate.
No, not static WordPress sites—more like the second, or something in between, though as a junior webdev I wouldn’t be the one taking care of the scaling (setting up the server with varnish, etc.), apart from avoiding direct database queries where possible.
Maybe if you gave a salary target that might help us calibrate.
Again I run into the problem of not knowing enough about the industry, but how about €35,000 in a place where you could relatively quickly head up towards €50,000?
This may be highly dependent on your location, but the average starting salary for a computer science grad in the US is greater than €50 K.
Maybe I’m completely miscalibrated, but if you know words like “varnish” and realize that they apply to scaling, then I think you are qualified to be a junior web developer. I would recommend applying to some jobs and seeing what happens. Let us know either way!
It’s tricky as I’m just starting to consider this career, so may not be familiar enough with it or far enough along with my planning to be usefully concrete. It partly depends on where sensible places to start are with my level of professional experience and knowledge (not negligible, but never fulltime webdev). Pick an example: a junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire. The requirements for that might be illuminating.
I would second Ben’s statement – if you have actual experience coding you’re probably overqualified for “a junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire.”
A clarifying question: When you say “builds websites for hire” I think “set up a boilerplate Word press installation with some stock photos to impress the rubes”. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean “create highly interactive single page websites that need to scale to millions of concurrent users”? Those are very different things.
Maybe if you gave a salary target that might help us calibrate.
Wow weird.
No, not static WordPress sites—more like the second, or something in between, though as a junior webdev I wouldn’t be the one taking care of the scaling (setting up the server with varnish, etc.), apart from avoiding direct database queries where possible.
Again I run into the problem of not knowing enough about the industry, but how about €35,000 in a place where you could relatively quickly head up towards €50,000?
This may be highly dependent on your location, but the average starting salary for a computer science grad in the US is greater than €50 K.
Maybe I’m completely miscalibrated, but if you know words like “varnish” and realize that they apply to scaling, then I think you are qualified to be a junior web developer. I would recommend applying to some jobs and seeing what happens. Let us know either way!