How the fuck does one get out of junior dev status? I’m at like 3.5 YoE and stuck in it.
You have to create technical debt specific to your skillset
Lmao. I’m in charge of migrating a C codebase to Rust, so I don’t think I’ll be lacking in that department.
Now just go to work and casually say " I’m feeling very senior today" .
These days you’re lucky to be able to work as a dev at all. To get out of junior dev you needed to get into the industry 5 years sooner.
So…I’m fucked? Lovely…
Pretty much. I’d try to get into a different field if you can.
I’m likely going to commit suicide. With the way life’s been going, I may actually end it all tomorrow.
I usually am, I am support and I ask questions about features so old and undocumented that no one else knows the answer.
This, but remove the “else”
…yes, not even the author
Or the author left and no one really knew what their job involved. Had one like that recently, tried to contact someone only to find out they have left. Oh, ok well who handles the content template site now? Oh, me? No one told me about this or how to use it.
I am the senior dev. Please. No.
You’re that afraid of the code you wrote 10 years ago too eh? 🤣
Yes.
I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts… The seal must not be broken
Perl and regex are modern day black magic
I honestly still use Perl for small scripts as a Bash alternative. It is very powerful and is already installed everywhere. I just try not to use it for things others might have to work on…
I am the senior dev and idk what the fuck I am doing, leave me alone
just stare at it long enough, it’ll work itself out
It literally did that just yesterday. I need to retrain for a new job. Something with wood or plants in general I think.
lol it’s 50/50 sr devs I know love or detest technology
As the senior dev, please don’t.
As someone who is not quite junior, but not quite senior, do it. It might just get me promoted ಠᴗಠ
… tell me again why you thought plugging into the prod server was a good idea?
I’m the reason we get a safety meeting today, if that counts? 😊
Sure, and it counts double if code you wrote was the reason for the safety meeting.
Be the reason Legal has to get involved.
Wait until becoming the reason your boss has to get involved
Be the reason the corporate PR team has to get involved.
Be the reason the Hazmat Compliance team has to get involved
It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission
Oh I got a N+3 involved.
Not my fault but I was the only guy who could solve. That was a fun three weeks of daily Is It Fixed Yet meetings…
As staff engineer, I’m far too busy to read any of these comments. Also I haven’t written any code in 4 years
What does a staff engineer do? Engineers staff?
Carry a big stick
Is that your staff or are you just happy to see me?
Oh don’t worry, I get myself involved in plenty. I prefer to make problems at the architectural or “leadership” level though.
Yooo somebody called me?
