Adding on to this, the kind of "hacky" code you produced while freelancing or working with small companies may have been entirely sufficient for that kind of pr

Adding on to this, the kind of "hacky" code you produced while freelancing or working with small companies may have been entirely sufficient for that kind of problem. Now that you're a programmer in a much larger institution the way you code will need to change. It's going to feel very foreign to you for the first few months. The processes and patterns are almost entirely different and it's okay to take a lot of time to adjust.