My girlfriend is a newbie frontend developer. Poor programming skills ATM, but she's learning quite fast and she's not so bad using React. She has received an offer for a paid internship in a small company with a friendly environment, but they use sort of in-house CMS based on php + jquery and they require also to use Photoshop to cut images and do graphical stuff. At the same time she's doing final interview steps with other companies that use React.js, but the company offering the internship wants an answer ASAP and she's afraid of refusing the current offer and fail the other interviews. What should she do? #internship #newbie #swe #frontend
ASAP doesn't mean now. Most offers usually can be delayed to a certain extent. Companies that don't let you wait a bit to see other offers usually aren't good companies.
jQuery is very similar to vanilla JS in some things. Concepts learned in jQuery will be transferable to vanilla JS that will help later with any JS library/framework.
Yeah I know, and I think could be a good basis to learn how thing works under the hood, instead of just assembly pre-built components. The problem is that local market in north Italy ask mainly for two year experience with react, at least if you want join companies with the best culture and salary compentation.
Using photoshop to slice graphics kind of tells you a little bit about the old fashioned company culture. Whilst it might teach her a thing or two about how it’s done over a decade ago, you can’t ignore money and the experience in this economic climate and job market. But yeah she needs to leave as soon as possible.