Does Java take a stack of people from other languages?

Question

Career in IT

Question such:
There is a commercial experience of development on Symfony (PHP). In fact, Symfony+Doctrine are clones of Java Spring and Hibernate.
What is the chance that they will take initially without commercial experience in Java, immediately to the position of the initial middle.

Answer 1

Chances - zero, zero, none (even for a junior).

Answer 2

immediately to the position of the initial middle

Laughed.
Your experience is nothing, I would not recommend showing off your experience in PHP at all.
Pray to the Light that at least 10 thousand a month will take you as a trainee.

Answer 3

You need to get a job in a company where they write in PHP and Java. Get at least a PHP middle. Then gradually pull up java, start taking tasks and smoothly move within the same organization

Answer 4

There are 2 categories of programmers. Some write using programming languages, others write in a language. For the former, language is only a means, for the latter, it is a fundamental thing that they are ready to pray for, although in some cases knowledge of deep specifics gives an advantage, but also makes it a hostage of the language. Just like the latter, those who did not manage to become a programmer also argue.
But the employer most likely will not hire you and hope that you will learn a new language at his expense, so study it yourself. If you have good experience with php7, use dynamic typing when needed, and have developed daemons, then you won't have a problem. Half of the "specifics" you already know, albeit in a different form, half you will learn quickly. Then go boldly work, it will be necessary, lie that you have already worked with a new language (I do not recommend lying at an interview, but the problem here is stereotypes). And joon and middle are very abstract words and each company will have its own understanding. As well as the requirements of the interviewers.