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Matt Eland

Sorry to hear of your tough transition. It does present a lot of challenges, doesn't it? What gives you the hardest problems? What works well to overcome them as a junior remote hire?

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NickStavrou

My hardest problem is that i didnt get enough training at the begining and this legacy code thing is enormous. I can not keep up with all the changes made. I focus in one side of the codebase and then they give me task to the other dark side which i dont even know what to do.
I try to keep up but am really struggling.
Ask like there is no tomorrow is the thing i do to keep me sane.

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Matt Eland

Yeah, legacy code is really rough to adjust to coming off of simple samples and projects you built together or on your own over a short period of time. I'm doing my best to warn folks of what they'll be getting into, but there's no substitute for starting and getting access to that code.