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Unemployed dad, Looking for new opportunity, Change new career field
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ragk
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May 26 2022, 03:14 PM
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IT Guy here
#1. Around 3.5k+ (for developer), maybe slightly higher now, 3.5k is my ex-company pay for a fresh grade 3 years back #2. Junior for developer (not sure for QA, since u are QE previously not sure if that's similarity) #3. Future and hype at the same time, future because blockchain do offer some unique characteristic that old school tech cant provide, hype because not everything need the blockchain manner, its over-applied in many aspect right now, just like .com bubble period imo #4. Courses just give u basic understanding honestly, IT employer always prefer for engineer with hands on experience. If u could show them what u have done (e.g. Ur own initiative project, ur freelance project) it will be much more convincing, considering your age it will be very helpful.
This post has been edited by ragk: Jul 4 2022, 10:49 AM
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ragk
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Jul 4 2022, 10:56 AM
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QUOTE(Megatronika @ Jul 3 2022, 10:23 PM) Thanks guys for your your reply. I will take your inputs seriously. As of now, aside from the blockchain course, I have been learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Currently spending at least 4 hours daily learning the concepts while doing some projects. HTML and CSS are quite easy to grasp, but I think I need at least another 1 month to understand advanced JS before I start to learn React. Regularly added new repo on GitHub. My target at the end of this year, I will be able to build several FullStack web applications.  Good start! If you have your own working project in GitHub it definitely prove ur spirit to ur future employer, working GitHub project is far more convincing then a degree imo. Just to let u know Lowyat got a Codemasters section for programmer, u can drop ur question over there if u having any difficulty. Just incase this topic is not in your list yet, u need to understand API (can learn at later stage of ur plan, or after). If u are planning to working as full front-end dev, its fine that u dont really know how 2 build an API, but u must know what it is. This post has been edited by ragk: Jul 4 2022, 10:59 AM
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ragk
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Dec 1 2022, 12:11 AM
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QUOTE(Megatronika @ Nov 29 2022, 07:44 PM) So far, I had attended 2 front-end developer interviews. The first one back in Sep'22 and the second one is Today. I just want to share what I have gone through. Maybe you guys can advise or take this as a guide if you are about to be interviewed as well. 1st Interview:
This is my 1st awkward experience interview process. The first stage, the interviewer call ALL candidates (around 15 pax) into a zoom meeting, at 7am in the morning, he introduced himself as the owner of the company (puchong). This is an app provider for medical practitioner in malaysia. And after that everyone of us has to introduce ourself and let us know our biggest accomplishment. It lasted around 2 hours.
Right after it, everyone has to provide below information through email. I guess he wanted to test whether we remember the discussion or not.
1. Summary of each candidate and interviewer, their name and role. 2. Why we should hire you? 3. Give your reference contacts. 4. Provide any evidence of your work/project such as website or github. 5. Payslip
I was able to passed the 1st stage and The 2nd stage is where they invite me for an online test. The Online test session duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes and will be done in zoom. After enter the zoom, the instructor explain around 5 minutes, said that this is recorded and need to show video until end. Just after that she left.
Q1. SQL Test, jQuery, JS, Q2. Problem Solving Question (this is where I wasted most of the time) Q3. Backend and Front End Assessment Test (C# was asked ) Q4. IQ test Q5. Personalities test Q6. Typing test
I can't even finish all of these after 3 hours ! Because I was not expecting they will ask about backend and database as well since the JD only stated HTML, CSS, JS and React. Also, Q2, Q4, Q5 and Q6 are not related to programming all. What is the intention here? Is this normal for front-end job?
2nd InterviewSo today I just finished my 1st stage interview (I think), for around 2 hours. I got a call from a recruiter just after 1 day updated my jobstreet profile. I did not apply any jobs yet though. The first half interview question is more on technical/theory part of the web dev such as react, css, html or even next.js (I can list down here if needed) plus with some behavorial question. The second half part is the live coding, they give me CodeSandbox file with a boilerplate then I need to build a simple app calling an api from external server. I did some mistakes since there were some error on the post method. But I did ask question and provide explanation as to why I did what I did. And after 1 hour I was able to finish it properly. The interview were very nice to me and really helpful, I really like this kind of team with good mindset.  IQ test and Personalities test are quite common, but first time i heard about typing test. And usually the test I received during interview were usually require more than the time they given to complete, I usually just pick the hardest the question to prove my capability since it's quite impossible to complete.
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