UnknownWon

Can't believe I just knowingly opened a photo of another man's sack.

I need to know!!!

What are the chances of two Michael's both being in the 9 year club?

I'm a senior FE dev in South Africa and am looking at jumping ship to a first world country. I'm self taught, studied construction and after a spinal injury, needed to find a desk job.

I feel like I'm in an awkward position where the standard of frontend dev is so low, that I'm only at an intermediate level internationally - but opportunities to work under international level seniors are skim to none.

Whenever I interview with international companies, I'm hit with interview questions that I feel as tailored to CS grads or the like. I've never had to calculate levenshtein distances for work, but I've had to solve complex responsive designs and manage massive state stores, workers, websockets, caching and the like.

You mention filling gaps, is the interview prep gap the only way to land a good gig? Do I really need to spend my time learning algorithms and edge cases to communicate my value

As someone who has very little reference to Japan besides anime/manga/architecture, would you say you fall under any sort of stereotype or clique? Sporty jock, nerd, cool guy etc?