Worth taking up PHP job?
Posted by Putrid-Commercial320@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 9 comments
Hi Friend,
I am software dev, with 5 YOE working at (competitor of Walmart), I have experience in Java, Python. I recently got a really good offer from a company whose backend is majorly in PHP(8) and symfony. I will be able work on python there, but its only a little part of their code.
Is this opportunity, worth trying? Will it hamper future prospects?
SpookyLoop@reddit
PHP + Symphony is very Springboot-coded. It's likely still a pretty professional environment, but you should've done what you could to sus-out how professional it really is. How do they handle project management, CI/CD, testing, etc.? All that is much more important than the languages / frameworks.
That said, moving forward I'm going to "PHP by itself" as a red flag. My current place is pure, frameworkless PHP and it's a dumpster fire.
Putrid-Commercial320@reddit (OP)
The team is amazing, they use latest of everything and building project ground up. But I am still concerned.
SpookyLoop@reddit
PHP as a language is fine. I recently got to create a new project with Laravel and I didn't hate that (also looked into Symphony before choosing Laravel, hence my "Springboot-coded" take on that).
Since the team sounds good, I wouldn't worry about it.
sbayit@reddit
With AI it doesn't important any more we just design the system.
sarevok9@reddit
Hot take as fuck.... We've had some pretty wild AI auto corrections using copilot lately -- you need to know how to code, AI just gets you there a bit quicker with scaffolding.
sbayit@reddit
He has 5 years of experience, so he knows how to structure things when switching languages. AI can help with that, for example, I used to code in Angular, and when I switched to Next.js, AI helped me a lot. I didn’t need prior experience with Next.js to make the transition
Putrid-Commercial320@reddit (OP)
I don't have issue with learning the language, the issue is, I think it might hamper career growth. Best way, I am thinking to tackle this is to take up the job and mention the work as java/go development in resume as the work is microservice development, so it won't matter, adding PHP to resume itself will cause issues.
Ziomium@reddit
Learning a new language will not hamper your prospects, but show that you can adapt to new work conditions. There is a lot of companies with a PHP base.
Putrid-Commercial320@reddit (OP)
Well, Its pretty good company (really well known, not meta), but I still the way recruiters work, what I am thinking is, I can take up the job an as its microservice work only, I can show its as development in java/go in resume.