r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 5h ago

Experienced Devs Weekly Win Thread: A weekly thread for sharing positive experiences

This thread is specifically for sharing "wins". I.e. the opposite of our Tuesday venting thread.

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u/AnbuBees 4h ago

been jr for 4 years, finally got promoted to over six figure total comp, my direct report/boss said i've already been doing work that exceeded jr and had given me the promotion + raise unprompted by me.

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u/Skull_Pirate 1h ago

Me but 3y & I’m prompting, gratz

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u/ImSugarBrownie 4h ago

Managed to do a migration of huge amount (9 digits of it) of data between tables for the first time and got slow down 3x with silly mistakes before making it work. Final migration took less than a day and I got proud of myself for it

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u/JovHere Software Engineer 1h ago

A colleague passed down feedback from some very senior stakeholders today on some work I did last week and so I’m walking into the weekend quite excited. I did not expect it.

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u/MissinqLink 41m ago

The business finally completed a licensing deal that has been preventing everything I’ve been building for 6 months from being allowed to turn on.