Software Developer: First Year
4 min readOct 12, 2020
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…