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What makes a new grad developer look competent to senior devs and managers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm well aware this post has been asked to death on Reddit, but I couldn't find anything relevant on Lemmy so I thought I'd give it a shot.

I'm starting my first SDE job next week, and to be honest I've never really been a dev in a professional environment before. I've had an internship where the bar was very low so I did decently, and a part-time gig where I just assigned myself tickets. Either way I've never worked on a larger team or in a specific org before.

Apart from the usual like "ask questions when you're stuck", "write proper documentation", "be proactive", and "communicate well", what are some technical things I should be familiar with to make sure I'm not bogging anyone down?

More specifically, are there concepts I should know/I am expected to know of that I might not have learned in university?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'd add things like

plan before you act (be that design before code, or something else of the sort)
avoid asking the same question multiple times (take notes, study up on things, and try to not ask the same question or make the same mistake over and over)
write useful tests and have good test coverage