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Discussion on: How to Bounce Back After Being Turned Down for a Web Developer Job

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At least in my case, it allowed me to have something to talk about during interviews. A prospective employer actually recommended that as a beginner, I stay away from positions that have a lot of refactoring and minor fixes as the premise of the job because it doesn't really teach you anything and doesn't let you have a real portfolio of projects.

And honestly, it's true, it's one thing to write new features, but another to just have a lot of boring chore-like assignments like "we need another column in this table" that may or may not cause you to refactor the entire codebase while you're at it. That and if it's written by someone much more skilled than you, it will be hard to understand how all the parts work together and faster to just imitate the logic of it and stick something in that works but doesn't conform to the structure. And if someone who is also new wrote it, in my experience, that can lead to things that are very stressful but ultimately useless for experience, like working with a codebase where a single file can have 2000+ lines of code.