Software Developer: First Year

Brian Jenney
4 min readOct 12, 2020
As the most junior person on the team you might feel a bit useless at times

So you survived your first day on the job. First week. First month… now what? At the end of my first 4 weeks as a software developer I felt useless at best and like I might get fired at worst. Here I was making more money than I ever had while barely contributing to a codebase that I did not understand and pestering my co-workers about the processes for deploying, reviewing and creating code on a daily basis. Maybe I’m not cut out for…

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Brian Jenney

full-stackish developer, late bloomer coder and power google user and owner of Parsity.io