The story of how I almost became a developer. Featuring confusion, frustration! Triumph! Coming soon to Netfli.... just kidding. - cc: getsentry mobiledebugging techcareers
With all the stories of layoffs and general tech industry malaise, I think it's time for a bit of a reminder of how far we have come. So here is an origin story, or, what would have been an origin story. Because I have a bit of a dirty secret to share. I am not a rock-star developer. Or much of a developer at all.But many moons ago I probably was on my way to becoming one .
I arrived at the interview and a little pleasant surprise was I happened to run into an old classmate of mine and we chatted for a bit. Eventually, it got to my turn and I was to be interviewed by two people. During this, I found out the company required you to commit for two years if you take the job. I was a little wary of this as I did not think I wanted to put off my dreams of starting my own company in a few years. I decided to be honest and told them so.
I was introduced to the basics of Bash and Git in the first few days. And JavaScript slowly as well. It was definitely one of those high-intensity training sessions. I had to leave my house at about 6 a.m. to arrive at about 7:45 am. We gradually fizzled out of the building by 5-6 pm and I would get home about 8 pm. It was tiring but nice. I was happy because I was learning so quickly. During an average day, we would be given several exercises.
Friday morning, I was programming *on the bus* on the way to the office. That was my desperation level and it was then, mercifully, it finally clicked. It was an async problem. Newbie-JS-developer-me did not understand that, unlike basic local C programs that ran line by line, if a JS line made a call for data over the Internet, there was no guarantee that data would have arrived by the time the program ran another line of code three lines down.
Thankfully everyone laughed. I made the presentation and explained the problem and it wasn't too bad after all, compared to how others had fared. Apart from the genius group, which basically had everyone applauding, we did well comparatively. From never touching JS to it becoming my favorite language in two weeks. Plus a newfound ability of a hard work ethic and achieving a lot in a short timeframe. Also going from me, a full Windows GUI lover, to actually preferring using the command line for Git vs the web interface. It was a positive experience.
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