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for ones who’s curious, I never liked my country and people because of

• corruption

• poverty

• litter and unjustified aggression with grumpiness all over the streets

• Ukrainians not caring about our own country in general, e.g. all government-sponsored workers doing shitty job and doing it way too long

• road rage and disrespect to driving rules and others on roads, e.g. someone on a pricier car usually doesn’t give a shit to someone driving a cheaper one

also I will never forgive government who, when I tried go to school for the second time, asked me to compensate all the money they paid for my first try. I dropped out the first time because I had no means to live and then they ask 20 year old to give them back $1.3k (really big money for a young Ukrainian) only because I wanted to get a degree. For context: both times my exam grades entitled me for free education. Where is support for ones who’s willing to get a degree? How was I supposed to pay this money? Parents stopped giving me money since I was 15, so that wasn’t an option. Anyway back then I was already working as a software engineer and managed to get a debt to pay this amount, then I dropped out for the second time. The law says that I must compensate money for this try too, but no one ever reached me about this so I never payed them back. You can call me infantile for being offended at government but that’s what I feel

my heart is completely with victims of this idiotic war, but it’s unfair to be blinded by the events and forget everything in my opinion

thanks everyone for you thoughts! That was really eye-opening. Starting from today I’m learning React and filtering what I say on interviews. Now your pieces of advice seems so obvious, I should definitely ask earlier. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!

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thanks for your insight

I wanted to get a full-time job offer to get a working visa ASAP, but yeah probably it’s saner to start with contract and see how it’s going

I was doing exactly opposite (Angular-only) but now I see that maybe times when there were plenty of Angular positions with often more interesting projects are gone

got this, thank you

yeah, I also was thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be that transparent in my thoughts. And you’re right about US, this may look to others just like you described. Thanks for the piece of advice!

edit: typo

makes me wondering maybe I was in a sterile information vacuum. I used to think Angular naturally protects me from all this BS mediocre react projects because of its ’enterpriseness‘ and ‘the choice for serious projects’. Thank you for the note, I’ll take this into account

thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I hate React because it’s a library, not an opinionated framework. I don’t want to choose a library for basic stuff over and over again and care if it was a good decision and will it be maintained in the next few months. And it doesn’t include TypeScript out of the box what leads to a handful of untyped projects on which I have zero willingness to work on. Even with types, from my experience culture of ‘type as much as you can’ is much stronger amongst Angular devs rather than React ones.