DEV Community: Leonardo Garcia

Time...

Leonardo Garcia — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:33:11 +0000

Time

Lately I have been coming to grips with having enough time to accomplish what I want to in life. I am happy with my professional career and want to branch out to doing some personal projects. I find my self not having the time to even start on a personal website. It has been bugging me more and more lately because we don't have an infinite amount of time in life. So every day that passes not working on a personal goal is a day lost.

How do you deal with it?

I want to know how others deal with this problem? I know I can't be the only one that has ever felt this way in life. I am still young (25 yrs old). So I understand that in the grander scheme of things I have time. Although at the same time if feels like I don't.

Thoughts?

100% Remote work

Leonardo Garcia — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:44:30 +0000

Working from the office

Since 2016 I have worked in an office. I gained 2 work from home days that I used on Tuesday and Thursday. I thought this was a really nice balance of in office and work from home WFH.

Turn of events

Since the worlds most recent turn of events, a lot of companies have been forced to have their employees WFH for the foreseeable future. Including the company I work at. Making the sudden change from the office to full remote can be difficult. I know there are a lot of lucky people who have the opportunity to still work from home during these times.

I believe that is where the work force was bound to go. Full remote where possible. Companies can no longer keep sourcing talent locally and think that it's the best. Maybe the best employee lives in a different state or different country!

This is the beauty of working from home. It allows companies to expand their work force to be stronger and more diverse too!

What are your thoughts on the sudden shift in remote work?

Help needed teaching someone web design.

Leonardo Garcia — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:08:06 +0000

So my wife recently got interested in web design, and I wanted to help her get started. So I'm looking for some helpful resources or courses that start from ground zero. (She has no experience in anything software engineering related)

Thanks in advance!

Entry? Junior? Mid? Senior?

Leonardo Garcia — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:29:51 +0000

What level of engineer are you? And who’s to say you aren’t more than that?

It can be really hard to gauge what level of software developer you are. Especially if our job doesn’t really have that hierarchy. There are many jobs that have levels of software engineers and they will determine your level. This is where things can get tricky. I always find it difficult to say that I am a Junior level when sometimes I don’t feel that way or I am only a Junior in THAT company because I’ve been there for {X} amount of years. So going to a new job would render me an entry level to that company. At least that’s how I think about it sometimes.

Of course there is a certain level of knowledge and competency that an engineer has at certain levels but it’s important to not get caught up in what level or are. It takes away from your work and how you can progress.

What are your opinions on this?

What it is really like for a Junior Dev

Leonardo Garcia — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:33:33 +0000

I've only been in the software industry for about 2 years now. I graduated with a Bachelors in Software Engineering in 2016. I can say that the one thing I regret the most is not doing and side work/projects to gain more knowledge about software development.

With that being said, it was really difficult to find a job at first. Being a recent grad I had NO experience. So to land a job I had to really sell my self. I was lucky to land a job and jump straight into developing in the .NET/Microsoft stack. I learned SO much more in about 1 month on the job than I ever have in 4 years of University. I have seen a lot of other new developers experience this too.

Over these two years I have worked on about 4 different key projects and have gained knowledge on other tools that help in software development. I have heard many stories where junior devs, or entry level devs, get stuck on a bug queue for about a year before they do any actual development in significant projects. In my opinion this is only going to stifle them. If you give a new developer the proper guidance and tools you can be amazed at what they can accomplish. Being stuck in bug queue for a prolonged period of time doesn't allow a new developer, or any developer for that matter, to grow and gain company knowledge. Because there is nothing more deadly than a great developer who also truly understands the business rules of a company.

What was your experience like as a new developer? Did you work on significant projects, or were you given "easy" work?