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> When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency to either overengineer or overcomplicate solutions This has been

by spyspy 2y ago

> When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency to either overengineer or overcomplicate solutions This has been the biggest struggle of my career. No one ever wants to take the easy route. Everyone thinks they are smarter than everyone else. Everyone thinks their little API is going to be globally popular and needs triple redundant failover zones, 64TB of memory, Kubernetes, scale, scale, scale.

piloto_ciego 2y ago
Not me! I want to write the dumbest most maintainable code possible. I want to use the most maintainable hardware, and the least complicated toolchain available. Now, please excuse me while I practice leetcode for my first job out of grad school where if I cannot regurgitate a complex algorithm (which is available in a well maintained library that I should never try to reproduce) I’m an unemployable dumbass.
- quectophoton 2y ago
  Decade-plus-something web dev experience here. I'm still an unemployable dumbass. Been applying to both backend and frontend positions, and to me the market looks like that "fronthand backhand" Key & Peele sketch (just mentally replace with "frontend backend"). I'm only surviving so far because someone I know offered me freelance work, but it probably won't last too long, and nobody else I know is hiring for a remote (or nearby) position. Maybe, if I lived in either of the 2 cities where 90% of the on-site developer job positions are located, maybe, things would be a bit easier.
  - mock-possum 2y ago
    I wouldn’t take it personally if I were you, the employment situation suuuuuuuuuuucks right now, worse than it’s ever been. Five years ago you’d have had a much easier time.
    - IshKebab 2y ago
      Presumably this is just for some locations/domains? I still get a mountain of recruiter spam...
  - piloto_ciego 2y ago
    This is more evidence to me that I’m fucked. Honestly, I think I need to probably just do my own thing here when I get done because if I don’t, well, relying on someone to take a chance on a 36 year old dude with a family and other obligations seems like a losing proposition….

by spyspy 2y ago

piloto_ciego 2y ago

Not me! I want to write the dumbest most maintainable code possible. I want to use the most maintainable hardware, and the least complicated toolchain available. Now, please excuse me while I practice leetcode for my first job out of grad school where if I cannot regurgitate a complex algorithm (which is available in a well maintained library that I should never try to reproduce) I’m an unemployable dumbass.

quectophoton 2y ago
Decade-plus-something web dev experience here. I'm still an unemployable dumbass. Been applying to both backend and frontend positions, and to me the market looks like that "fronthand backhand" Key & Peele sketch (just mentally replace with "frontend backend"). I'm only surviving so far because someone I know offered me freelance work, but it probably won't last too long, and nobody else I know is hiring for a remote (or nearby) position. Maybe, if I lived in either of the 2 cities where 90% of the on-site developer job positions are located, maybe, things would be a bit easier.
- mock-possum 2y ago
  I wouldn’t take it personally if I were you, the employment situation suuuuuuuuuuucks right now, worse than it’s ever been. Five years ago you’d have had a much easier time.
  - IshKebab 2y ago
    Presumably this is just for some locations/domains? I still get a mountain of recruiter spam...
- piloto_ciego 2y ago
  This is more evidence to me that I’m fucked. Honestly, I think I need to probably just do my own thing here when I get done because if I don’t, well, relying on someone to take a chance on a 36 year old dude with a family and other obligations seems like a losing proposition….