Reading your post (and a bunch of others) made me realize that either I was very lucky to have a very slow and enjoyable start in an engineering career or I was terrible and therefore needed special treatment.
At my first job, I didn't even get to look at the code. I spent time just doing trivial tasks non-dev related (now that I think back, in reminds me of karate kid as he was forced to wipe the floor for days), going to meetings that didn't concern me, but assist and tweaking development tools.
After a while, I was introduced to writing basic tests, analyzing code, and fix minor bugs.
Months passed until I could actually have a proper discussion about how and why an algorithm was implemented in or how I can design and implement my very own feature.
Same thing happened when I switched the job (so, I already had 2 years experience as a developer). Maybe over a much shorter period of time, but similar process.
I feel like other junior devs are or were much better prepared for their first jobs. Similar to, probably, how I feel now after working for 5 years in the industry.
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Reading your post (and a bunch of others) made me realize that either I was very lucky to have a very slow and enjoyable start in an engineering career or I was terrible and therefore needed special treatment.
At my first job, I didn't even get to look at the code. I spent time just doing trivial tasks non-dev related (now that I think back, in reminds me of karate kid as he was forced to wipe the floor for days), going to meetings that didn't concern me, but assist and tweaking development tools.
After a while, I was introduced to writing basic tests, analyzing code, and fix minor bugs.
Months passed until I could actually have a proper discussion about how and why an algorithm was implemented in or how I can design and implement my very own feature.
Same thing happened when I switched the job (so, I already had 2 years experience as a developer). Maybe over a much shorter period of time, but similar process.
I feel like other junior devs are or were much better prepared for their first jobs. Similar to, probably, how I feel now after working for 5 years in the industry.