If you want to find a job with hipster, new startups, ruby and node.js seem to be
some of the fancy technologies now.
PHP has very noticeably taken the backseat in these environment. It is still very present in some more conventional companies and companies having much legacy code invested into.
Also frameworks (think Laravel, not Joomla!) seem to be here to stay. But of course, again, it depends. There is no one size fits all, not in modern software development anyway.
shekib82 wroteWell I am not looking for myself right now. But it is important to have enough demand for our skills to keep salaries rising. One nightmare for us third worlders is that we get reduced to the India wage.
and treated like a replaceable, throwable dumb mule, no matter how good you are at your work. Been there.
shekib82 wroteAnd about that supply, I have seen some of the new arrivals and they can't code jack shit. A lot of them just get into it because they have seen that it is easy money. But they don't have the least amount of skill.
As a continuation of what I said above, some (a lot?) of companies are like this (the "manager" would not have a very high standard either but would sleep at the office and be close to the boss) and are counting on desperate recruits (fresh graduates for example) to keep their crap together somehow. Once they start developing self esteem and ask for a better salary or/and work environment they are pushed towards the door.
It's a sad situation but fortunately there are some companies in Lebanon with decent standards, surely. No?
shekib82 wrote
All this said, I feel the demand is down due to the political situation.
"The fish rots from the head", quite often (technically fish do not rot from the head, but it's just a saying).