> I really did work hard First of all, this doesn’t really matter too much. You mentioned it a couple of times, so I wanted to respond to that point. If you c

> I really did work hard First of all, this doesn’t really matter too much. You mentioned it a couple of times, so I wanted to respond to that point. If you can slack off and still get your work done, that is better than working hard but not achieving your goals. That being said, I think it is unfair to criticize an inexperienced dev too much over things like design decisions or not knowing to look at how other projects have done something. If anything, the rest of your team deserves blame for not providing adequate guidance and assistance along the way. Do you not use some kind of agile process? This would bring problems to light much more quickly and give you many opportunities to communicate the status of your progress along the way, so hopefully you can avoid the “this project should have been done a long time ago” meeting.