If you decide to go the coding bootcamp route, chances are you are going to have a few months of absolute madness. You are trying to change careers...
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Couldn't find a better summary of my current state of mind. I started my first full-time Associate Software Developer position 2 days ago and it already feels like all the knowledge I had from self teaching and community college is useless (not really but I feel like I know nothing)
Haha I feel ya, but hopefully it wasn't totally useless!
This is a brilliant article. Thank you so much for it! I often feel when coding my own projects that nothing I do will match the style and scale of a corporation. Even looking through public git repos I feel intimidated. It's nice to hear what it's actually like coding on a large project!
Great article to help set expectations. A few other notes if I might....
-- Someone will be looking at your code at some point in the future. Assume whoever wrote that legacy code you're fixing/enhancing did the best they could with the tools/techniques available at that time. In bootcamp there is no time machine.
-- You'll have to run automated tests to prove your changes didn't break anything. In bootcamp there is no regression testing because there is no legacy code.
-- Sometimes you will spend more time writing automated tests than you do writing "real" code. In bootcamp there is rarely have enough time for comprehensive testing (let alone automated with CI/CD).
Thanks for sharing Caitlyn! This is helpful for getting insight into what it is like to be a software engineer. When you mentioned that nothing is straight forward & easy as it seems, what has worked for you in your current role as you have learned on the job?
That feeling went away real quick 😅. I am now in charge of real projects and it feels great to be part of team!
A fantastic post, so true! Thanks for sharing!
I've been in my job as a software developer for almost 2 years now and I STILL feel this way!
Congratulations! Job hunt can either go well from the start or in my case take a while, I can't imagine with Coronavirus how it's gonna go but I wish you best of luck. Don't give up🙏
Yep, that about sums it up.
I got my first job as a graduate developer, I was totally unsupported had a breakdown unfortunately.