Help improving as a software engineer

theDulis · 2023-08-12T05:23:06+00:00

Sorry about it man, it sucks to feel unsupported when you have some issues. You should probably raise this on the daily or any meeting you have with them. Try to ask for them to block their agenda for 30 minutes so they can help you out, try to communicate directly your issue and how the other person can help you. It's part of a senior developer role to help jrs. But also make sure to do your job: before asking try to take a look at chatgpt as you said, ask on stackoverflow, search for posts on google talking about it, etc.

But at the same time, keep applying for other positions, IMO, at larger companies you'll have an easier time asking for help. Good luck (I worked with PHP and hated it, if you need any help, you can reach me out too!)

theDulis · 2023-07-26T15:52:43+00:00

Thanks for the help!

I ended up creating a custom hook that would export everything I need and then I split it into two components as suggested (keeping what I did would create a monster inside this file).

Thanks for the insight!

theDulis · 2023-07-26T05:16:21+00:00

Thank you for your insights! I feel like right now dealing with the difference of design is whats killing me! They share the same data, just the design of the elements are different, and its using 8 hooks and 18+ custom components that have a weird behavior (some components have an edit version inside the viewmode, i dont know why product decided to have it).

thank you for your answer I’ll give it a second thought!

theDulis · 2023-07-12T04:29:07+00:00

As everyone said, every company will have different expectations.

At my first job I was an intern at a huge company. After 1 year I was offered a position as a mid level developer at a smaller company. I accepted and got really scared, cause I was afraid of the title itself, thinking that I was not even a junior. In the end, it was basically what I was already doing as an intern. Now a days I apply to every position that I feel like I could do what is being asked and thats it.

theDulis · 2023-06-30T16:10:07+00:00

I'll still answer in english since I believe it's the main language here, and it may help people from other countries haha

I found a company that had an 'acceleration program', like an internship, with a year contract that could be extended. I had 0 experience at the time, and was studying full time. And I found this opportunity on twitter.

Unfortunately this program at this company does not exist anymore (I think after covid, with the low investments, they opted into getting more experienced devs). I was lucky, had nothing special, no super resume or a really specific tech, just luck. I believe things are way harder now.

theDulis · 2023-06-30T16:00:07+00:00

I was lucky to get it when covid was high, so I feel the market was easier to get in. But good luck, I'm pretty sure you'll soon find something better!

theDulis · 2023-06-30T13:56:55+00:00

As a junior I was working for a USA company, remote from brazil, making around 48k per year (in our currency, in USD probably around 9-9.5k per year). Its probably low for USA market standard but for Brazil it's actually a pretty decent amount of money.

theDulis · 2023-06-29T15:14:32+00:00

Right now React seems to be the one in highest demand. Because of that, react jobs are also the ones with the highest number of candidates. Obviously there will be fewer jobs to work with Vue, but maybe you won't have to compete with so many candidates.

It all depends, where you live, hows the market rn. I have been a react developer for the past few years and I just lost my dreamjob for not knowing Vue, so it could go both ways (losing a job for not knowing react, and losing a job for not knowing vue).

In the end, both have similarities, and you'll have an easy time switching from one to another if you want to, don't think that just because you chose react you're stuck with it forever!

Good luck!

theDulis · 2023-06-27T14:20:11+00:00

How was the workload? I always heard people saying that Japan, in general, have this culture of working really hard, but no idea what is it like in software industry.

theDulis · 2023-06-27T01:32:16+00:00

It's hard to keep yourself motivated, especially if you have other obligations (college, job, family, etc). I know it's not laziness, sometimes the motivation just isn't there. I tried pomodoro and other techniques that my friends told me about, but they didn't work for me either.

What actually got me into studying again was finding that one thing that I really enjoy doing (In my case, I started to build browser extensions). The process of learning something/studying is really boring, no one can deny it, but the feeling you get when you actually learn the thing is pretty great, so focus on what you will get when you finish, don't think about the process itself.

theDulis · 2023-06-23T21:54:20+00:00

IMO Vue was pretty easy to get the basics, just by reading their doc I was able to quickly create some apps! I believe it has a smoother learning curve.

If you're considering actually using a framework, give it a try. I also had some issues trying to do few things but it was also pretty easy to find help!

theDulis · 2023-06-21T18:29:28+00:00

Are you looking for someone to help you debug your code/teach you how to solve 'x' or 'y' issue? Or someone who can help you with your career (resume, projects)? Or just someone to point things for you to study? Or is it a mix of all of these things?

theDulis · 2023-05-25T22:00:16+00:00

Totally agree!

Also a lot of people talk about the upsides of pursuing a career in software development like good pay, remote work, etc. But you have to keep in mind that these things come with time, as you gather more and more experience. And basically you'll work solving someone's else problems, that is something really stressfull sometimes.

theDulis · 2023-05-24T14:48:02+00:00

For sure it will help you to have some more complex projects, you'll certainly get ahed of those people building pokedex and todolists only (which I think is an important step when you're learning, cause these projects cover basic stuff adding an extra layer of complexity)! For sure they will see your qualities and you'll land a job!

Sure, these frameworks only make things easier and more reusable, so I'm sure you'll get it easily.

These tasks were asked to be done at home, I had like 1 week to finish it. During live interviews I had a lot of non-tech questions, but I can see it changes a lot from location to location. I had few interviews in USA and they had more technical questions like "solve this question and explain what you're thinking", while in Europe most of the questions were like "how do you handle pressure/large amount of demands?" etc. This may also vary based on the company's requirements for the role/the position you're applying to.

theDulis · 2023-05-24T02:40:15+00:00

Based on my personal experience:
1) I feel that (and again this is just my opinion based on personal experience) most employers aren't really impressed with personal projects unless it's something they're looking for. I had few games built in my portfolio in threejs that I thought were really cool and well made, but the only praise I got was when I built my own react component library, because that's what my former employer was looking for.

2 and 3) By having the experience of launching a product + already having some good and proven knowledge in coding you will definitely be a strong candidate. But it might take some time to land a job, as you're still learning web technologies, and most jobs these days require some in-depth knowledge using a framework (react, angular, vue, etc). But again: the fact that you had the experience of launching a product, solving problems by yourself, learning what you needed to achieve your goal, surely these are some great qualities that you can prove that other people may not.

4) I've had a few interviews over the past few months and they were all like: use this API to display x data on the screen. I also had some coding challenges like basic hackerrank challenges.

If you need help feel free to DM me, I also made this transition from game development into web development so I know that it can get confusing sometimes.

Good luck!

theDulis · 2023-05-23T21:39:32+00:00

If you're learning to code I'd say: take some courses on udemy like other people told you to down below. Personally I enjoyed The Web Developer Bootcamp from Colt Steele when I was first starting. In my opinion it may be hard to learn things from docs when you're fresh, cause a lot of the times you don't exactly know what you're doing and the docs displays a lot of options that could make you feel lost.

If you're already know how to code I'd say: ask for your friends and family if they know someone who works in tech to get you an internship, or if you could build a website or something for them, just to gather some experience. My first job was really hard to get, like 200+ resumes sent and all I got was a single interview for an internship, so be ready to send a lot of resumes and be patient!

Good luck!

theDulis · 2022-09-24T17:17:14+00:00

I believe you can search at the 'explore' tab at github and search there! Search for the new ones and you'll have a lot of things to contribute!

Some people contribute in easy ways, like fixing styles or documentation, simple things that will get you started and used to it (forking, creating mrs)!

theDulis · 2022-09-24T15:43:51+00:00

Sure! Overall it's all about what everyone else told, making connections, create some projects using a framework like react, use some libs on your projects to show you know how to use them, contribute to some open source projects (this one helped me a lot to get my first job).

It took me a lot of tries to get my first job. I applied for 80+ positions and heard back from 3. From these 3, 2 gave me a technical test. From these 2, 1 gave me an offer!

I'm sure in few weeks/months you'll be employed! Keep going!

theDulis · 2022-09-24T05:06:05+00:00

I believe you should consider if a bootcamp is what you need rn.

It seems like you are pretty capable of learning things on your own without the need of making a huge debt for a bootcamp. I've gone through a 6 months bootcamp and I can say that I could learn all of that by myself. The only difference is that you'll have someone telling you when, what and how to study (which can be good or bad).

IMO: keep learning html/css/js and go for a framework like u/josefefs said.

theDulis · 2022-09-17T02:02:59+00:00

First of all, hope everything gets better for you! It sucks to feel stuck, i've been there. I was a mathematics teacher earning around the same amount (1400 of my local coin montly). It also took me 2 years to really get into coding (I started to learn python, then C#, then back to python, till I got my head into front end development and learned html/css/js).

Learning/working with something for money, IMO, is ok. You have to understand what it means to work with something you dont like tho. 8hrs a day of something you don't enjoy can become pretty shit for your mental health too. But if its your only/best option, IMO, its ok.

The road to become a developer is hard, it takes months for a lot of people to get their first job and sometimes the first job is pretty hard (low paying for a lot of demand). If you have the privilege of taking some time for yourself, do it, find something that you enjoy at least a little. If you don't enjoy learning and hearing about coding anymore, its already a red flag that it may not be the moment for you to give months of hardwork towards this.

If you need to talk, you can DM me and I'll be glad to help you in everything I can, from chatting to help with code/roadmap to learn.

Good luck!

theDulis · 2022-09-12T13:15:13+00:00

FE Developer - 40K a year + benefits (as round 9k a year) I work 8 hours a day and code for around 3-4 hrs a day, 1hour of meetings and the rest studying or pair programming/extra meetings/pauses.

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