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50 Things I Wish I'd Known at My First Developer Job (Part 2)

Jacob Herrington (he/him) on August 20, 2019

This is part 2! 26. Culture fit is dangerous Culture fit might be one of the most dangerous concepts in any hiring process. My first j...
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Fabian

"The truth is, just by knowing how to build a basic UI with HTML/CSS and a sprinkle of JavaScript, the market has determined that you are extremely valuable."

Is that true? As an aspiring web developer that is very promising.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

You're more valuable than the huge number of people on Earth who can't make websites. 😉

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Louise

That's a great point, Jacob. As I'm more of a designer, that's the current level of my skills but I've never thought of it that way.

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Tevin Rivera

Thank you for the great post; I am 4 months in at my most recent job, and all these tips made me feel way less embarrassed. It's the posts like these that really help the dev community on a whole. Thanks again Jacob!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Glad I can help! My first dev job was really hard on my mental health, try not to take it too seriously for the first year or so ;)

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Nestro Felipe

Hi Jacob, nice post.

Could you please explain more the number 34. Actually I found the definition of 'Whiteboarding',

Whiteboarding in IT refers to the manipulation of digital files on a visual digital whiteboard.

But I am still lost =(

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

I'm glad you like it!

It's an interviewing tactic. I write a bit more about it in another post I made this week:

dev.to/jacobherrington/10-hiring-p...

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Rajab512

Amazing man , hopefully it will help me as I am just around the corner to step into the industry.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Good luck! I hope this stuff is helpful :)

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Tepy Thai

Hi Jacob, thanks for writing this great article. I'm doing my first internship right now and I can confirm that most of your points are solid, even if it's been only 2 weeks 😅.

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Arman Khan

Thank you for this master piece! I will remeber every point from this.

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Janessa Tran

I feel like this is something I'm going to coming back to quite often, thank you so much for writing this all out!

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Zoomrollerskater

This is one of the best pieces of advice ive read in a while thank you for the gem :)