Who wants to be a millionaire?

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Actually, which developer in Nigeria wants to be a millionaire? All you have to do is score the highest on Jason’s/iROKO’s test.

http://www.jason.com.ng/post/118280228255/engineering-at-iroko-meet-tunde

We expect (and can) pay market or above market rates to attract the best developers in Lagos and Nigeria. We are happy to consider returnees or local developers alike. We have a nice little office in Anthony Village. Experience is not necessary, the school you attended is unnecessary, your age is unnecessary, nor is your ability to code in any particular language. We are looking for super-dupa smart coders. Who live and breath code. That will be our first step. Our first filter. A simple coding test.

To throw a sweetener in, every month I will give N1m prize to the highest scoring test result. Whether they choose to join IROKO or not. The test will be posted tomorrow.

Great. N1 million. And iROKO will pay Konga-esque or more salaries too. Maybe Nigerian developer paradise is coming early afterall?

Also, interesting, this testing trend.

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This really got me excited. Especially the part where the developer wont be mandated to join Iroko. I hope this makes other companies/startup jealous and they try to emulate.

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Interesting, but the roles could have been more specific.

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Nice one Jason. Way to go!

I’m certain this would help motivate a lot of people especially new entrants considering the Dev, Design and UX path.

On the other hand, it would also be good competition for Konga :smile:

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Me I will just attempt the kweshion and chop the 1m. Now looking for otumokpo to score the highest.

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Folks keep talking about how well Konga pays its devs, but no one has actually shared actual numbers (Naira and Kobo) here. Can someone please share the net pay of a Konga dev?

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The “standard” offer is 50k plus what you are currently earning. More if you negotiate hard. However, salary increases and random bonuses come basically every time, so developers are happy. I imagine that’s why there are no actual figures being shared but folks keep talking.

Source. I have lost developers to Konga over a wide period of time.

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This is interesting. I think in the end we will all be better off for it. All we now need is more companies to jump on this trend.

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It would really be great to have a discussion centered around these questions and the ranked solutions provided by the winning developer(s) . Would help bring our attention back to important aspects of software engineering such as data structures, algorithm design and evaluation etc. Much respect to Jason for what I see as a genuine attempt to really raise the bar of excellence within the Nigerian developer space. A contest is also awesome because I suspect (ofcourse, will need to empirically verify this) many of us developers are extrinsically motivated. Looking forward.

Victor

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50k?? Are you for real?

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He said 50k PLUS whatever you are earning.

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The specific roles are listed on Jason’s blog.

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I know, I meant those roles needed more info. Job expectations, what language the company uses, employee benefits etc.

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The million naira link : https://codility.com/honeypot/iROKOtvcom-engineering-competition

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The test is based on sql and c. I’ll just wait for everyone to come.

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Lol. I just finished the codility test. Well, I don’t intend to work with Iroko but an extra 1 million for turn up ain’t that bad.
Turn down for what?

@TED: It is not just sql and c. sql for the first question yea. But you can select your language of choice for the other 3 questions from the dropdown. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python etc.

I used PHP to solve the other three questions.

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How many hours was it and when is the deadline to participate?

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Just finished mine right now. When will the results be posted. ?

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Hmm… I suppose developers should get expensive http://gph.is/1FS7c7x

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