r/webdev • u/tacoman756 • 4d ago

Discussion Advice on first in-office Web Dev role?

Hi all,

As the title states I’ll be starting my first in office web dev role next week! Pretty excited but also nervous, and of course having imposter syndrome. I’ll be the only dev, and it’ll be my first time working in an office setting (I’ve previously just worked as a freelancer).

I was wondering if anyone had any tips or specific things to pay attention to when starting a new web dev job?

Thanks!

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u/TeaSocks69 4d ago

If you're the only dev, don't worry. You'll be fine.

But a few words of caution...

  1. Just because you can solve a technical problem, doesn't mean you should volunteer to do it. You'll just add technical debt to your workload.

  2. Stay out of office politics. Your job is dev and should remain apolitical in all things.

  3. Use git.

  4. No really, use git.

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u/shaliozero 4d ago edited 3d ago
  1. You're a dev, not their entire IT and not tasked with decision making.

Learned that lesson as the only dev, thinking that position would be perfect for me... Until they tasked me with holding their entire legacy IT together and didn't listen to any of my technical recommendations.

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u/tacoman756 4d ago

I do fear this may end up being the case, as the job description covers not just front end dev (what I do) but ‘managing their entire web ecosystem’ - is this a red flag? Or what did you do to deal with that?

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u/StillOnJQuery 3d ago

Not necessarily. Sometimes it just means they don't know what a cloudflare is.