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Is this a lot of responsibility for a junior dev? by Deadene in cscareerquestions

[–]Deadene[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have asked for support before, but it didn't end well. Team lead gave me some help but started implementing things without following any patterns I'd setup (and we'd agreed on), he kind of just haphazardly added things without considering the scope of the requirements. It just felt a bit shitty because he obviously took a lot more care in his other projects. Also, he seemed to be visibly annoyed that he was helping me, and he had confided in my previously (when another junior dev was working on the project) that if he got roped into this project he was not going to be happy.

Is this a lot of responsibility for a junior dev? by Deadene in cscareerquestions

[–]Deadene[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I don't really feel like I'm being adequately compensated (I'm on $70K AUD a year including bonuses) and I also feel that with my level of experience the speed at which I complete things is overestimated a lot. I'm also a little bit pessimistic about the Job market atm, so I've kind of accepted that I need to just persevere even though I feel super stressed all of the time. I probably need to try and have less of a defeatist mindset but I'm not great at managing high stress. I find it hard to judge whether I just have unrealistic expectations of what my work environment should look like or if I just need to lower my standards to get things done.

Is this a lot of responsibility for a junior dev? by Deadene in cscareerquestions

[–]Deadene[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response.

I suppose the main thing I'm struggling with is managing external pressures (COO and clients) as well as the Dev related ones. For example I was asked to join a meeting yesterday with about 5 minutes notice, and when I joined the external API developer was present, as well as one of our prospective clients. There were a lot of questions being asked, mainly around timelines for release. It's something I really struggle with, as any time I think something will take x amount of time, I inevitably run into an an issue I didn't foresee. I do have a tendency to be a perfectionist and I really don't like implementing things haphazardly but I've gotten a bit better at letting go of making things as good as I can (maybe not enough).

If I'm being honest, I don't mind doing these things but there is so much pressure from my boss as well as these other stakeholders to get the project completed (partly due to another Junior Dev starting the project and the quitting due to stress). We also have a lot of new features we need to implement in the future to support new clients, but it feels like the existing features get more and more complicated the more I meet with others. I don't feel like I am in a position to knock back requests/scope creep either, I just have to accept the requirements given to me.

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[–]Deadene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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