You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project

Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by yohannesk on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:14PM (#43081133)

I don’t think there was any dig implied. And I will second that it will add to self esteem. Specially during discussions if you have more understanding about the code you will have both better contribution and take away

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by baobabKoodaa on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:58PM (#43082757)

Sure, when you succeed in understanding someone else's legacy codebase, it builds self esteem. When you fail attempting to do that, it does the opposite.

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by lanstin on Monday February 17, 2025 @05:06PM (#43083748)

I have inherited projects where I just could never understand what they were thinking well enough to make the service good (not running out of memory and crashing). It was very humbling; I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with things I wish I'd tried, but the assumptions of how it all worked was just scattered throughout a bunch of files and the assumptions of everything was just not how I'd do it.

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