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Ask HN: Finally got a new job, how do I avoid making the same mistake as before?

After being laid off in November, I finally got a new position. However, I will be the sole developer on the team. I've been in this scenario before, after graduating I joined a company with six developers. Pretty quickly, the other developers departed, and I was the only one left. During this time, I did not make any attempt to stay current with industry best practices and missed out on...

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Ask HN: What do you do when you are only getting interviews for senior position?

I recently experienced a layoff and have been looking for new opportunities. While I have received several interviews, they have primarily been for senior-level positions (I did not apply for these positions).My initial work experience after college was at a company with a less structured engineering culture (I only found this out after leaving). My subsequent role posed a significant culture...

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Re:Ask HN: What was your take-away from job loss? on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:51PM (#33664704)
I was laid off on Thursday, I feel awful and relieved, I was working ridiculous hours trying to stay of top of my JIRA. I keep thinking about the first comment from this post[1], I don't know if I was a good developer, and I can't ask my co-workers because they could just lie to make me feel good. Now back to LeetCode grinding and system design.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581828

Re:Ask HN: I started a new job and I'm scared on Thursday February 17, 2022 @10:35PM (#30381867)
My title is software engineer II

Ask HN: I started a new job and I'm scared

I'm a month and a half into the job as a software engineer II, and I feel lost and scared. I'm scared that they will fire me because they think I'm incompetent. I'm working on a ticket that should take me a day to finish but it has taken me almost a week. I hate that I am always asking people for help, like today I asked for help to rebase my branch since I have never done it before. At my old...

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