3 years ago
Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:34pm PST
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to get a good job as a junior developer?
I don't understand this industry. There are very few junior developer jobs and even they ask for 2 years of experience. How is one supposed to enter the higher paying market?

I work as a Node/Angular developer in a South Asian country and over the past 8 months have gained domain specific skills comparable to my own team lead who came from a different background. I write tests, APIs, UI features, deploy to QA, fix issues in QA, fix the build pipeline, architectured microservices and micro-frontend pattern, etc. I am not bragging, every of my team member does this and they should be paid more too. I am sure there are developers more competent than me but I really think I should be paid a lot more than $500/mo especially reading developers salary in American and European countries.

How do I as a South Asian junior developer land a better paying job? Remote is almost impossible considering they don't let Junior developers work remote and looks like only option is to move abroad but hardly anyone sponsors VISA especially for a South Asian junior developer.

Am I stuck here forever?

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