Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling. My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed

Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling. My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.