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>How'd you get so good at debugging and navigating code you've never seen before? >Because I spent a couple internships and a whole year as a junior debugging,
by morkalork 1y ago
>How'd you get so good at debugging and navigating code you've never seen before?
>Because I spent a couple internships and a whole year as a junior debugging, triaging and patching every single issue reported by other developers and the QA team
Was I jealous that the full time and senior devs got to do all the feature work and architecture design? Yes. Am I a better developer having done that grind? Also yes.
- _heimdall 1y ago100%. I shouldn't have done the architecture work on any meaningful scale early on, but I was always interested. My early roles were largely me being able to architect smaller pieces in a larger plan, building some architecture skills while learning larger patterns that worked and thought processes along the way. I'd recommend that approach to anyone working with more junior devs.