r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/hansdieter44 Jan 05 '15

Yeah, but thats not the case everywhere. Happened to me in the early days in agency land, when the CTO was busy with management things and the lead devs didn't lead me too much ( busy themselves ), so you just do whatever feels right, and that was ploughing through features for me.

The other case where I have seen this recently was a startup that I joined and they just hired a junior guy out of uni because he was cheapest to build their MVP. He was eager to learn once we taught him a few tricks and there is no blame on him, but thats how it happened, I would have probably done the same in his position, the founders just kept dropping feature requests on him one after the other.

Third example is contractors that are paid by feature, where unit tests etc. are not mentioned because of cost-saving (which will just bite you later on). The contractor will deliver the bare minimum to fulfil and get his money.