Ask HN: How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?

Re:Ask HN: How to improve as a struggling junior software en... by ratww on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:18AM (#30977095)

Nope. Realistically YES. I worked in some less than ideal places in my career, but even the ones I quit, this wouldn’t realistically happen.

A junior being able to delay a process for a month means gross incompetence from everyone else involved.

We as developers have the duty to push back against stupidity in the workplace. The labour market is in our favour, those companies should die.

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Re:Ask HN: How to improve as a struggling junior software en... by bb88 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @09:19PM (#30983498)

So I've seen people be hired who were expected to perform poorly but then were fired when layoffs happened to protect the core workers -- because stack ranking and all that.

It's kind of like poker. The moral is: if you can't see the sucker they're going to fire next, it's probably you. Basically, don't be the sucker at any work environment.

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