I was broke and looked pretty disheveled when I got my first dev job and when I showed up on my first day somebody called security on me while I was waiting in the lobby π
Everybody has to start somewhere!
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well in my first day the guy next to me just farted and everyone left the room
I was hired by a man who started his own company out of his basement. After five weeks, I walked in to no one there. It turns out he was in the hospital receiving a diagnosis for leukemia. A week later, he passed away unexpectedly. I was immediately thrust into the lead developer position with his wife and brother as co-owners. I ended up staying with them for 11 years.
i was never got accepted from my first interview
At the end of it i thought they told me to come tmr but actually they said they will contact me tmr
And the next day, the boss was awkward but he still took me in :D
That was 4years ago and i still embarrass about it lol
I was super nervous. My first dev job was a full-remote work. My first day was meeting the team on the standup meeting through Google hangouts. I did not know what to expect and my idea of a developer was they know all stuff around developing stuff so I was very nervous and imposter syndrome was kicking in when they start talking about stuff that I have no idea about.
They gave me time to learn for a week and I tried talking with my colleagues and they made me comfortable with not knowing a lot of stuff. So yeah, it was an adjustment period and a really fast one.
Goodluck to everyone starting out!
I started my first day of my first DEV job going to staples with my boss to pick my computer desk and chair, and then assembling them all by myself. This was pre Ikea days, circa 2004, so it wasn't as easy but it was very satisfying in the end.
It was the end of a dilemma whether I should continue on my work as A UX/UI designer with a very very very poor salary, shitty environment and no product delivery or return to software dev as a front-end developer and get a job. I got a job luckily, working remotely from home, The first day, I was anxious whether I remember what I was doing (as an amateur front-end dev) and whether I had what it takes, lot of stress that is now much better :)))
First "enterprise-level" work I was going to join after several years of freelancing.
I was told "So, yeah. We're Portuguese so we'll have to go to the Technical HQ in Porto, Portugal for a couple days so you get a better grasp about the culture, who you're going to be working with and practice your Portuguese a lil' bit."
First day of work I got to meet my product owner and a colleague.
We got to the office, I was given access to a whole bunch of tools, Agile gibberish and so on, I was asked to pick a "work item" from the board, since I simply didn't get a thing from the whole set of tickets/work items we had for picking i went for something that seemed complex so I could get a look at the code and mostly to be given enough time to come up with a solution.
The thing ended up being rather simple and the ticket I thought was the easiest was extremely complex to solve, that much that I needed guidance from some of the seniors from the group.
I failed miserably to speak in Portuguese, so there's that. Did "great" at the work part, socializing wasn't my strongest point those 3 days.
Also, my hotel reservation went bananas and I was thrown from one corner of Porto to the other, twice in a single night, the hassle was that much that my previous boss had to come over and help me solve the issue.
I was excited, couldn't wait for them to see how good I was at programming, how much University had taught me. Oh, how wrong I was π€£. It took me a good 5 minutes to realise that I know literally nothing.
At first I was excited about my first job , every bit was memorable and it had to be since a lot of efforts was put to reach at that point, and then the veil lifted when i was asked to create a custom logic to generate reports of tasks run in production by quering the db and display the results along with proving users capabilities to filter out. The room temperature was icy but i was sweating ,it took 2 days but i finished it.Happy starting .I was ready for next challenge.
I can relate with being broke on day one. My first day was after having 1 month off between college and work, which was spent on our roadtrip honeymoon. It was amazing, but due to some car trouble among other things it went way over budget. Getting to that first paycheck was tough.