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Tell me something funny about your first DEV job

HAPPY Friday!!!

As I am here, dreaming about my first DEV job, I felt like asking you:
What's something funny that you did or happened to you about your first job?

-Maybe something that wasn't that funny at the time but now when you look back you can't help but laugh.
-Or maybe something about the interview that closed the deal.
-Or whatever comes to mind.

Give me some inspirational laughs people.!

A purrgrammer cat typing like crazy on his laptop

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Ben Halpern

I was broke and looked pretty disheveled when I got my first dev job and when I showed up on my first day somebody called security on me while I was waiting in the lobby 😐

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Pachi 🥑

LOL that was Savage, sorry Ben 😅 hope it makes you laugh now 😂

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Mohammed Nabeel

LOL.

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IvannMG

Someone came to visit offices, as CEO wasn't there I made the visit

Turned out he was an FBI agent investigating on the company :/

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Akinkunmi

We had a similar issue in my office not quite long. Though I was not the contact person, seriously I know how this looks like

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Pachi 🥑

Wow! That IS heavy 😅

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Christian Baer

I've been in the company for a couple of weeks and two people were working on a piece of software. The two people where a mid level developer (MLD) and a working student (WS). Following conversation happened.
MLD: Hey, I reviewed your code.
WS: Ok.
MLD: Seems fine as far as I can tell, but you did not stick to our coding guidelines
WSD in a very serious voice: I am the coding guideline.

This was not a joke. He meant it and that was the end of the discussion.
What I didn't know, MLD has been there for a couple of months only, whereas WS was kind of on board from the start and was in fact the better programmer. Not knowing this the whole situation was quite bizarre.

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Victor A. Barzana

Lol, that's soooo annoying!!! Can't imagine myself being in that situation!

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂 I can imagine your confusion

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Curtis Lawrence

I didn't know I was actually hired as a dev.

About 10 years ago I had originally applied for a graphic design position. During the interview it came up that I built my website. So for the second interview I met with the dev lead and got the job. But I wasn't fully aware that the second interview was for an entirely different department and position.

It all clicked in the first few on-boarding meetings, I didn't want to let on I really had no clue what I was doing, so I started winging it.

And I guess you could say I've been winging it ever since. I'm now the lead dev for a different agency.

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José Rodrigo Abril Lara • Edited

You and me both.
I was studying advertising, thought I would start with a very simple design position, (this was back in Guatemala... ) 10 or so years later here I am working as a Dev in the Netherlands

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Pachi 🥑

Lol that is awesome 😂😂😂😂

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Robin Kretzschmar

I had to do a test with a couple of technical questions to estimate how my skills were and some general knowledge questions.

I was so nervous that I somehow managed to get the technical questions right and failed at the most basic question about how many states Germany had that time and what the names were... 😂

After the interviewer reviewed my answers, he was a bit confused, asked me this question, I answered correctly and told him I had a mind block on that question during the test.

(Got the job) and we laughed about it.

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂 hey, at least you got the job!!!!

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Robin Kretzschmar

True 😊

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Sal Hernandez

When I got my computer there was a sticky note on it that read "For Sale" & I was like good because it was an older MacBook pro but it turned out that the laptop was for me! The name that was given to the IT department to create all my accounts was "Sale Hernandez". 😭 Once they realized their mistake they had to recreate all my accounts. To this day I can't unsee my name when I see "Sale". 🙃

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Pachi 🥑

Lol that IS terrible.
But also funny 😂

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nske

hehehe if the IT was anything like ours... gouh It might had not been a mistake :D

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Pandita

I got my first job by showing off a 3D rainbow dinosaur model done in WebGL🕺

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Pachi 🥑

Lol I would have hired you after that too !!

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Frank • Edited

On my last day at this startup:

After working 11+ hr days for the last 2 months, I had just run a db migration via postman a few days prior but left the tabs open :)

While showing a new guy my common-use postman routes, I accidentally hit “enter” and dropped part of the db cache :D

Good thing I had the resync routes in the next tab, good thing it was a Friday at 7pm, and good thing it was my last day LOL byyyeee

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Pachi 🥑

Woooooow 😂😂😂😂 great away to leave 😂😂😂

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godsenteliel

the best thing was it was your last day

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Keff

I was working one afternoon when I heard a couple of fart noises coming from a set of speakers in a desk nearby, it kept happening and happening... I was confused and somewhat entertained by it, I then realized the speakers were attached to a Raspberry pi and my boss subtlety laughing at the back of the office.

We then made a clock than farted the hour xD xD

(yup, it was a startup)

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg a farting clock , lol lol lol

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

My first job as a developer instead of a sysadmin (which is actually my current job) finally made me seriously consider getting a Mac despite my significant dislike of Apple (not fond of macOS, and I like hardware I can repair myself without needing electrical engineering skills).

The funny part about this is that I don't technically need a Mac for work, I just finally got tired of pestering my colleagues (all of whom are in different timezones than me) whenever I need to test some code on macOS.

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Nipodemos

in that time hackintosh was not a thing yet? or it was not possible to do it in your conditions?

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Actually, this is essentially right now, so yes, Hackintosh is technically a thing.

I dismissed a Hackintosh as an option for two reasons:

  • I'd end up spending roughly the same price on the hardware anyway (baseline Mac mini right now is about 800 USD, I've actually looked and can't put together an equivalent system in terms of CPU/RAM/storage for less than about 750 USD, and saving 50 USD is not worth the next point).
  • Running on real apple hardware reduces the maintenance overhead.
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nske • Edited

From a quick look on the US Amazon, here's what ~$800 can get you:

  • Deskmini 310W (mini-STX case + passive PSU + motherboard) (~$160)
  • 32GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (~$140)
  • Samsung 970 EVO SSD 500GB (~$90)
  • Core i7-9700 ($415.00)

Board *reportedly works fine with hackintosh.

More powerful and almost just as small form factor :)

*tonymacx86.com/threads/deskmini-31...

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Pachi 🥑

I feel you, not an Apple fan either 😅 but sometimes it helps to test !