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 😐
Everybody has to start somewhere!
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Thank you sharing your experience with newbies like us!!! We really should know what we are getting ourselves into
I was nervous and my "tocayo" (we have the same name!) was the one onboarding me. He showed me over 15 different programs he used to code, he sorta explained git to me (I had never heard of it at the time), then sublime, then PHP, Laravel and so on. Later that morning I was thrown in a project with no docs, no comments, no nothing! I was so ashamed of asking questions but my lead was really nice about it. Then in the afternoon, I was told about another project I would be in at the same time I was working on the other one.
It was so. much. for. me.
But I had lots of fun at that job. I really miss it sometimes.
Suerte que entraste directo a Laravel, que genial 🤟
Solo vine a decir que: Laravel es lo máximo
I was working for exposure literally. I took the job because I was eager to learn from experienced engineers. But I worked for free for two months and left couldn’t afford to keep up.
I just summarized my first months...
A pity they didn't even offer you a wage 🙁
If you're actively contributing on any way, you should get paid.
Welcome to be software engineer
I was hire for Motion graphics, and they say in some cases I will throw some html and css in the project.
now I'm the Lead front-end developer of our own templeate engine.
No more 3d graphics in Cinema4d or AE motion graphics for me this days, only code code and more code.
I'm the todologo in the company (front-dev && Motion graphics) 🐒
By the way my job is not that hot at all I build, design and make animated videos for online Courses about Security awarness on the internet, GDPR, HR and other things for the Seniors and not tech people.
About 6 months into my career 🐣 I got a project working for the local government council, I designed thier intranet to look like the Xbox 360 dashboard sort of (let's employ a youth, with no experience to design our internal tooling), they still use it and too this day! I haven't had complaints. It even had useless features like customizable wallpapers. I cringe 🤦♂️
After college I realised i got no 'food' remains from parents. So I got into a startup and when I showed up on my first day there was no one even security so i waited in the lobby until they arrived. Soon I realised it was the wrong building
Before i was software developer, i was software tester. I was asked to copy paste each line of the BRD (Business Requirement Document) into an Excel sheet. And add Sl No. to each row.
Must say , there was nothing to learn , than excel formulas and macros
I was confused, seeing everybody knowing their role. My boss were explaining to me was we were to use: PHP5 as Backend and jQuery in the Frontend alongside with Bootstrap.
I was scared of screwing something, even that I was doing the ; mistake (forgot to use a ; at the end of a php line)
If I can say something to my younger self: Dude don't be scare, learn from anything and never stop learning and inproving yourself.
On my first Dev job I was told that I will be working for free as long as i did not produce enough revenue for the company and I should be thankful to be trained for 'free'.
After a month of working hard both in the office and at home the company made me a proposal to hire me as a NodeJS Developer.
The beginning has hard and even I thought I had the basics covered the challenges just blew my mind!
Don't let the fear of failure to stop you from doing what you love, if you don't try you fail for sure!
If you try you can succeed!!!
Shame that made you swallow that bs about being "productive for the company"!
Companies are expected to invest in new talents. A little loss is expected and acceptable.
I agree that the companies should invest in people!
It's sad how many talents are being lost because they don't get the support they deserve!
I was so proud of myself, because I were so fast with typing the signature of a java main method, when I started Vocational orientation for pupils as software developer. Well, I never wrote it once, nor writing code at all in this time but was cleaning the warehouse and sorting hardware 🤣
Without any motivation to go on, I've left my PhD in mathematics. "Well, I have to find a job now..."
Asked around, after 10 days I thought I was being interviewed for a position in a computer shop. After some puzzling questions about my development background (which was almost non-existent, actually), I discovered it was for a development position.
I got hired. I still couldn't believe I pulled that off.
The first day I had no idea what that job was about. Or what I was expected to do.
Fortunately, they weren't even expecting that, and that helped me a lot kick-starting my career... that I've loved since then!
I had to install Fedora in the laptop they gave to me, previously I had only developed in Windows, meeting Yum package manager, the SeLinux and the wifi drivers where challenging at the time.
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.
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.