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Discussion on: What part of your first dev job were you least prepared for?

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Frank Carr

Office politics and a senior developer's attitude were the worst problem. The senior dev was overprotective of "his" code and had the ear of management since he had been at the company a long time. He routinely trashed other devs, deleted changes made by others and did other things that made the working environment toxic. To make things worse, he produced awful code.