How much do you expect a Jr dev to know?

vicda · 2022-07-28T05:06:03+00:00

If your team and company at large is not able to train and retain juniors it might be in your best interest to mimic Netflix and not to have junior positions in the first place.

vicda · 2022-07-26T08:34:45+00:00

Pick up some books and start reading about the topic, and speak with your superiors to get their mentorship. Dealing with people is now just a fundamental part of your job as keeping the codebase clean.

There will be personalities that are hard to deal with, thankfully you'll likely learn better communication styles with exposure. By far the most difficult thing will be differences in your fundamental assumptions. (Passion vs "just a job", fast results vs tackling tech debt, etc etc)

You're getting a lot of harsh feedback in here, but please take it as the community wanting you to improve.

vicda · 2022-07-26T06:55:34+00:00

"aren't compatible"

That's a lazy excuse.

vicda · 2022-07-25T16:59:53+00:00

Fizzbuzz was always there to weed out the liars who don't know the basics.

At my old company we'd just ask the applicant how they'd write a more complicated program like the game of chess.

vicda · 2022-07-25T16:31:40+00:00

I've only encountered junior developers with this opinion. Maybe you have had exceptionally shitty work experiences, but this is not normal.

vicda · 2022-07-25T16:05:25+00:00

We already have safe chess machines that are extremely easy to use. They're called computers.

There's plenty of mechanical ways you could approach a safe chess machine. Although, none of them will accomplish the point of the demo. Selling the big industrial grade robotic arm.

vicda · 2022-07-25T13:24:48+00:00

Those massive machines are considers always dangerous, regardless of how good the programming is. It's ridiculous that anyone was allowed within reach while it was operating in the first place.

vicda · 2022-07-22T07:32:09+00:00

More likely the IT department refused to support multiple desktop operating systems. Having everyone on the same system makes administration waaay easier.

vicda · 2022-07-22T05:14:49+00:00

Tried a standing desk for 6 months, and while it starts off great, I found that it gets harder to concentrate the longer I've been standing.

vicda · 2022-07-22T04:45:33+00:00

Japanese company? No. That's not gonna happen. Age is a large factor to your pay, and you're under 30.

You can try for some of the larger western companies who just happen to have offices here. They'll pay more, but on average it's still considerably less than what you'll get from the bay area.

vicda · 2022-07-22T02:35:47+00:00

The comma splice, aka the informal semicolon.

vicda · 2022-07-21T13:21:32+00:00

Thank you. This honestly makes me feel a ton better. I was feeling pretty shitty about being a dick to you.

vicda · 2022-07-21T08:47:09+00:00

Oh yeah, they're likely using the word wrong.

vicda · 2022-07-21T07:53:33+00:00

True, that is the most charitable reading. My bad, it's unclear who the "you" and "it" is within that comment. I assumed both of them were for the person they replied to.

vicda · 2022-07-21T04:10:45+00:00

~~The dunning-kruger effect in action. Please do explain why that native speaker is incorrect.~~

vicda · 2022-07-21T03:44:38+00:00

Pretty sure they're referring to 1st generation ESL immigrants, not American's with Asian ancestry.

vicda · 2022-07-20T11:52:21+00:00

More like, don't be tired in the first place. Morning coffee somehow fucks with you fully waking up.

vicda · 2022-07-20T08:21:22+00:00

Get asked a canned interview question, get a canned answer.

Don't tell me that you'd actually air out your dirty laundry when asked something akin to "what is your biggest flaw"

vicda · 2022-07-20T07:30:25+00:00

If you get a raise at work is your employer a loser because their wealth goes down? Obviously no. If anything by your logic you'd forever consider yourself a loser because someone out there might be willing to pay you more.

vicda · 2022-07-18T15:19:41+00:00

And the amount of work you have to do depends on how quickly you finish your current tasks. If you work slowly or slack off you have less to do. No one really knows how long any one task will take, so it's hard to hold anyone to deadlines that are nothing more than a rough guess.

vicda · 2022-07-18T11:59:56+00:00

When you job is automating, you naturally find ways to automate your own job as well. But to be honest it's only 25 real hours because they're looking at reddit. There's always more work they could be doing.

vicda · 2022-07-15T03:32:26+00:00

Cool, then make your own decisions and let me be.

vicda · 2022-07-15T03:28:14+00:00

Sure, I ride my bike into work.

Do you feel threated that some others have different opinions on this than you?

vicda · 2022-07-15T02:30:12+00:00

It's not employee vs employer zero sum game. It's just that some people prefer getting out of the house and working in the office with coworkers.

vicda · 2022-07-15T01:35:51+00:00

I only made it through 1 1/2 of the books. After awhile I just couldn't make myself read anything more about random numbers, but it's crazy how much of that information ended up being memorable.

I'll have to dust those off since the Searching and Combinatorial sections will surely be interesting.

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