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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by fhbdukfrh on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:50PM (#20359082)
Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by yjhoney on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:30PM (#20363757)
YMMV. I don't expect everyone to get 130k TC, but that has been the case so far.

A few things that helps:

1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations.

2. Really drill down those foundations.

3. Work experience: most of a student's journey is actually working together as a team to build / launch products. I role play as a project manager and run weekly sprints.

4. Relevant Technologies: I work as an engineering lead during the day, I make sure student's work experience covers all of industry trends (currently: GraphQL, React, Apollo Client)

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by rmdashrfstar on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:55PM (#20363972)
In what way did you determine that GraphQL and React are industry trends? Isn't GraphQL a fairly niche solution to relatively uncommon problems that benefit from using a graph database?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by yjhoney on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:17PM (#20364127)
> Isn't GraphQL a fairly niche solution

Everyone around me seems to be implementing a GraphQl layer, and most of them don't have a graph database. I'm still not even sure what the `Graph` means in `GraphQl`.

Here's an overview of how Airbnb uses GraphQL: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-is-moving-1...

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by ailideex on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:44AM (#20360612)
I generally take things which sound to good to be true with a pinch of salt. No exception here.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by jammygit on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:09AM (#20359988)
Depends where you live... where I live, that is a lot. Makes me want to move but my family is here