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What can I expect on my first day / week as a junior developer?
I’m starting my first developer job next week after around 6 months of self study and a boot camp.
I’ve just accepted a job offer at a medium sized company that dose some very exciting work, honestly it’s so much more than I expected my first position could possibly be.
I’m somehow worried I scammed them and they think I’m more skilled than I actually am, but in reality they asked me increasingly difficult technical questions to the point I had to say I didn’t know so they should know my skill level. Furthermore the projects they saw on my portfolio were ones I created independent of any tutorial, I don’t think tutorials even exist for what I made.
I guess I’m just afraid they’ll expect me to know things I’m unfamiliar with or that I’ll have forgotten a lot by the time I start. I mean when I step away from my own project for a week and come back to it it’s almost like looking at foreign code and I need to read my documentation to relearn it.
Don’t get me wrong I’m super excited, absolutely buzzing and can’t wait to start but I’m just curious what I can expect and what I can do to prepare. Hindsight is always 2020 so if anyone has any from their first day or week they could give me I’d be grateful.
I’m starting my first developer job next week after around 6 months of self study and a boot camp.
I’ve just accepted a job offer at a medium sized company that dose some very exciting work, honestly it’s so much more than I expected my first position could possibly be.
I’m somehow worried I scammed them and they think I’m more skilled than I actually am, but in reality they asked me increasingly difficult technical questions to the point I had to say I didn’t know so they should know my skill level. Furthermore the projects they saw on my portfolio were ones I created independent of any tutorial, I don’t think tutorials even exist for what I made.
I guess I’m just afraid they’ll expect me to know things I’m unfamiliar with or that I’ll have forgotten a lot by the time I start. I mean when I step away from my own project for a week and come back to it it’s almost like looking at foreign code and I need to read my documentation to relearn it.
Don’t get me wrong I’m super excited, absolutely buzzing and can’t wait to start but I’m just curious what I can expect and what I can do to prepare. Hindsight is always 2020 so if anyone has any from their first day or week they could give me I’d be grateful.
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