Salaries for self-taught devs?

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Does anyone have some real world experience or a good estimate for what a decent self-taught (unrelated/no qualification) web developer could hope to earn? Maybe out the gate (junior or internship), and after about a year's experience in the industry?

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I would assume the pay will be the same as all the job adverts, in this space we care less about your qualification, what matters to us when we hire is can the guy or girl do this job.
 
Qualifications will help get you into an interview room, after that it's all about your abilities. If you don't have qualifications you'll need to demonstrate on your CV what you're capable of - links to sites you've developed, github repositories, summary of side-projects you've worked on etc.
 
Out the gate (no experience) you can look at between R6k and R8k a month. Problem is that these kinds are a dime a dozen these days. Internship can drop to R5k a month easy.
 
Problem is getting the interview as the company might disregard you if the CV doesn't look good. The interview should include some sort of technical aspects that proves your skills which you will have.
 
Self-taught, but with some projects on Github and willing to do a technical test - no issue - then, depending on the company, the degree might not matter.

Probably sub R10K for no work experience
 
vic777 said:
Self-taught, but with some projects on Github and willing to do a technical test - no issue - then, depending on the company, the degree might not matter.

Probably sub R10K for no work experience
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Probably, but this should increase very quickly as you prove your worth to the company.
 
Shi said:
Probably, but this should increase very quickly as you prove your worth to the company.
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Some companies exploit you, so then you have to resign and look for other work to bump your salary significantly
 
vic777 said:
Some companies exploit you, so then you have to resign and look for other work to bump your salary significantly
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I know a company that did this. I worked there for a while, went in finishing my degree they said they will increase once I was done. I completed they said next financial season and I couldn't wait that long so I left. 6 months down the line they are still looking for a replacement for me.

i think depending on what type of company it is, people do not respect software devs that do it on their own.

It goes back to my argument about going to university and learning windows forms, while the rest of the work is looking at react for web apps. Places like wethinkcode are much better value for devs to learn.
 
BeatBot said:
I know a company that did this. I worked there for a while, went in finishing my degree they said they will increase once I was done. I completed they said next financial season and I couldn't wait that long so I left. 6 months down the line they are still looking for a replacement for me.

i think depending on what type of company it is, people do not respect software devs that do it on their own.

It goes back to my argument about going to university and learning windows forms, while the rest of the work is looking at react for web apps. Places like wethinkcode are much better value for devs to learn.
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For interests sake, which university teaches windows forms?

My curriculum didn't go to much into things like that. More theory, data structures, formal logic, maths - things you need but don't always pick up 100% on your own
 
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