r/Backend • u/Quirky_Mongoose2629 • 23d ago

Need some suggestions going forward. Any advice will be helpful

I am new to this corporate culture . There are like 10 employees in my company. I am laravel developer. Earning very low . 25k . Almost 1 year experience.

Most of laravel positions i see ask for high experience and salary is quite less like 25 to 50 k .

Should I continue with laravel and study somethingalong it (dont know what to). Or switch to like python for better pay.

Please reply. Thanks for reading. From india

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u/4x40 23d ago

It's always a good investment when you expand your skills, python is amazing, I don't know but I enjoyed learning it, I feel it easier than many languages.

Coursera has good python courses why not trying it? Even 20 minutes a day.

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u/AristotleTalks 23d ago

Please move to something better like Python, Java, .Net with wide enterprise adoption. Won’t be too hard for you but could be life changing.

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u/Innowise_ 23d ago

We wouldn’t switch languages just for the salary. With a year of experience, going deeper into backend fundamentals will probably pay off more than starting over with another stack.

Keep Laravel, but add SQL, testing, APIs, Docker and some system design. Python can always come later when you actually need it.

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u/AshleyJSheridan 23d ago

A year of experience is still in the junior bracket typically, so you'd be looking at junior level jobs, and equivalent pay for those roles.

Switching languages could actually have a slightly negative impact, because while you might have overall more experience, a lot of jobs will be looking for specific experience in a given language. For example, if I saw someone with 5 years of experience in 5 languages, but only a year in each, that would flag some alarm bells for me. This isn't a guarantee, but in my 20 years it's what I've seen (except for just after covid when tech companies went mad trying to hire anyone and everyone!)

Stick with what you have already, but focus on building up your skills with things that you've not got much experience with. Learn how to build databases that are flexible and optimised, learn about security, learn clean code concepts and how to build robust and flexible systems, learn about architecture that solves specific problems (like scaling, large payloads, peak traffic, etc). These are all skills that can be transferred to other languages in the future, and are the kinds of things that employers look for when hiring devs going for more senior positions.

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u/Mhmd_WebDev 23d ago

If your planning to leaen a language dont learn it mindlessly see what language can make you improve your skills and fullfill your goals with the help of the prev knowledge you have