I would second Benâs statement â if you have actual experience coding youâre probably overqualified for âa junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire.â
A clarifying question: When you say âbuilds websites for hireâ I think âset up a boilerplate Word press installation with some stock photos to impress the rubesâ. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean âcreate highly interactive single page websites that need to scale to millions of concurrent usersâ? Those are very different things.
Maybe if you gave a salary target that might help us calibrate.
No, not static WordPress sitesâmore like the second, or something in between, though as a junior webdev I wouldnât 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 âŹ35,000 in a place where you could relatively quickly head up towards âŹ50,000?
This may be highly dependent on your location, but the average starting salary for a computer science grad in the US is greater than âŹ50 K.
Maybe Iâm completely miscalibrated, but if you know words like âvarnishâ 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!
I would second Benâs statement â if you have actual experience coding youâre probably overqualified for âa junior job at a webdev agency which builds websites for hire.â
A clarifying question: When you say âbuilds websites for hireâ I think âset up a boilerplate Word press installation with some stock photos to impress the rubesâ. Is that what you mean? Or do you mean âcreate highly interactive single page websites that need to scale to millions of concurrent usersâ? Those are very different things.
Maybe if you gave a salary target that might help us calibrate.
Wow weird.
No, not static WordPress sitesâmore like the second, or something in between, though as a junior webdev I wouldnât 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 âŹ35,000 in a place where you could relatively quickly head up towards âŹ50,000?
This may be highly dependent on your location, but the average starting salary for a computer science grad in the US is greater than âŹ50 K.
Maybe Iâm completely miscalibrated, but if you know words like âvarnishâ 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!