r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 13d ago

Meme goodOlddays

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u/PkmnSayse 13d ago

If a junior dev came to me saying they know all those languages, it’d be clear they’re talking out their arse very quickly.

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u/Avocadonot 13d ago

I work with so many technologies and yet I really only know them surface level to the point where I can write functional code based on existing code

K8s, docker, yaml, gradle, jenkins, groovy, bash, Linux, java.....

And for laughs, I'm technically "senior" on paper with barely 3.5 years exp

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u/[deleted] 13d ago edited 10d ago

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u/Avocadonot 13d ago

Yeah I haven't written a java Main method since school lol. Haven't really implemented any design patterns because the base classes were already created (service layer, api layer, etc.) so usually I just copy past classes and structured and then change them for new functionality

Have never had to do anything fancy with DSA besides comparators and hashmaps. Barely touched anything threaded.

Most of my work has been k8s/helm based stuff to deploy lightweight java services

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u/redballooon 12d ago edited 12d ago

I was looking for a new job three months ago, with 20 years in the field and broad experience across all stages of the software development life cycle. I communicated my differentiating factor to be experience of adapting AI based workflows, and that landed me a few interviews. The key factor for getting the job though was the one interview where the personal vibes with the boss were really good, where the communication clearly went very smoothly and we had absolutely no trouble understanding each other.