junior

• https://jg.gg/2020/11/23/are-you-a-junior-developer/

• https://building.echo.co.uk/posts/on-being-a-junior-engineer/

tips

• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-common-mistakes-novice-software-engineers-do-that-should-easily-be-avoided-if-being-told-earlier

Things to deal with as a junior

• Here is a list of new things that new developers who work professionally for the first time, this leads to so much cognitive overload, so need to take it easy.

List

• Large codebases

• Test automation

• BAs, PMs, QAs, DBAs

• Estimating things you do not understand

• TDD for real

• testing pyramid

• Continuous Integration

• Merge hell

• git flow vs trunk based

• Bad code

• Bugs that cannot be fixed

• Big systems

• Legacy systems integration

• Misused technology

• Complex subject matter

• Insufficient permissions

• Unreasonable colleagues

• Misleading documentation

• Misleading dead code

• Unfamiliar tool chains

• Heavy management processes

• Deadlines

• Faulty APIs

• Vague bug reports

• Unreproducible bugs

• Micromanagement

• Unsatisfying work

• Code standards you disagree with

• Performance reviews