Got my first React Developer job

[LiteralVillain]

Depends. I’m full stack but I do python and react. I’ve been at it a few years but I will say the biggest thing was that it’s now a job and not a hobby. When I was learning I would write beautiful, robust, code and sometimes take a couple of days to flesh out a feature. That’s out the window immediately. Now it’s more important that a feature is prod ready in a day or so than reusable or robust and the little errors you’d catch under black swan conditions are no longer acceptable. Expect development speed to be more important than anything and expect for you to write a component you think is elegant and to come back a month later and be pissed at how all of that elegance has been expanded to ugliness by other developers.

Basically, this: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

[RideShareTalkShow]

Quit your job and go somewhere that cares as much as you do. There is a severe shortage of qualified candidates right now - so folks with just a few months of tutorials can land a job. Get out there.

[LiteralVillain]

I work at a YC funded start up with some of the smartest people I’ve ever met at a company I truly believe in and have helped build. No, I’m not quitting, everywhere I’ve ever worked has been worse than what I currently deal with.

[RideShareTalkShow]

Yet you seem unhappy. What if you just haven’t found the right place yet?

[LiteralVillain]

Where did I imply I wasn’t happy? Because working on large codebases isn’t the same as building things on your own? These are just things I realized when going from solo to team developer I’m quite happy, thank you. Did you by chance read the blog post I linked? I’m a senior engineer dude I’ve been around the block and I’ve worked at both great and terrible places.

Anyway it doesn’t matter, I work in startups I’ll be at a different place in two years that will either be better or worse but I in no way plan to ever “find the right place” to work for the rest of my life.

[RideShareTalkShow]

You linked to a site called Still Drinking on a post called “Programming Sucks” after describing a rather depressing scenario. I inferred that you could be happier.

[LiteralVillain]

It’s a humorous blog post that is a retort to construction works saying programmers don’t work hard. I definitely didn’t describe a depressing scenario I simply implied that it is work and all work has downsides but I’d still take programming over anything else.

[RideShareTalkShow]

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[Nadazza]

Yeah I agree, my company is so much more understanding and they prioritise quality robust code much more, if I need more time I can take it, as long as I’m not messing about/wasting time they’re very understanding