"Junior" Is it so difficult to get into a STRONG team in python compared to php?

Question

Python

How difficult is it? Many times more offices work on php and the chance to grow is much greater. All this in St. Petersburg.
What can you say from your experience?

Answer 1

I personally managed to get settled in a couple of weeks. But at the same time, there is a lack of vacancies for juniors, yes.
What I did? I responded to vacancies for middles and even seniors, in some I wrote that I was actually a junior, but I was ready to develop. And it works. I have been at a new job for almost 2 months now and I still receive letters from a headhunter that the vacancy to which I applied is no longer relevant. Despite the fact that some responses were immediately rejected, most simply ignored. Several other companies interviewed me and were ready to give an answer after a week / two. Some called back, some didn't. But there were a couple of companies that wanted me to go to work as soon as possible, despite the fact that it was right before the New Year holidays. As a result, I especially liked one of the companies and I went to work the very next week after the interview. So seek and find.
PS If you wish, you can find a job even in a week, probably, but here it is important not to get a job, but to get into a good team where you will develop as a developer, and not stagnate. Sometimes it pays to give up a higher salary or a closer office, but understand that it will more than pay off later.

Answer 2

PHP is cool
in the years of Noda, Go, and other, as it were , stable , or not very “not for everyone” languages, not to mention the classic Java / Ruby / Python, it is seriously considered to “grow up”.
It's really cool!

Answer 3

You don't have to look far for strong teams, there are a lot of them on the gig and beatbucket. Connect to the development of any open product in Python: Freecad, Ubuntu, Blender3D...

Answer 4

Most classmates and acquaintances who went to the web work with PHP and JS. I myself tried to get a Python developer, but, alas, no company answered. A couple of times they themselves were invited to interviews as a PHP'shnik.

Answer 5

> What can you say from your experience?
From my own experience (I'm trying to change my profession from an SEO optimizer to a PHP back-end programmer), I can say that even a php junior is difficult to get a job, especially when you are not 20 plus or minus years old, but 30+
Vacancies from companies with a good team of programmers extremely few.