Introduction

I am very lucky to get my first job as a software developer when just graduated from my University. Being in a company and the most importantly, first professional experience as a developer was very exciting for me. There are several difficulties that I encountered and also many things that I've learned from them as well.
I really want to share my first experiences with everyone who is going to start their first job, and wish everyone who is looking for a job will receive good news in a near future. 😊

Experiences

• First of all, as a junior developer without any professional experiences, when I first looked at the code base that I will need to work on, I was a little bit panic as it was so so massive with thousands and thousands line of codes, and I bet it may had been taken me a few sleepless nights to finish reading through everything, and maybe a couple of months to understand all of them. Surprisingly, when I started doing my tasks, I realised that the more and more I interacted with the code, the more it got familiar to me. Luckily, I worked with a very nice team leader, he would help me with all of mine stupid questions and my problems without any complains.

=> So that when you just started your first job, you may afraid of asking questions or bringing out your opinions about something. Please do not hesitate to ask and tell people what you are thinking, it can help you to go through your problem which take you so much time and you realise that it may just took a minute to solve it. Senior developers or your team leader had a time being a junior dev like us as well, so I think they will understand what we are going through and struggling with. Moreover, the way the solve the problem is also a thing that we could learn as well.

It may sound very easy to ask questions or speak out loud our opinions about something or what you want to change or even ask for what you need in order to work better, but it actually hard sometimes to ask people because we may think that we would interrupt them or they would be annoyed by our stupid questions (it happened to me many times 😅!!). It may have some negative effects on your mood and motivation to go to work so just speak to people in your team or whoever that can help you, I am sure you will be very happy to see your ideas or opinion got accepted and turned to something helpful for everyone.

Conclusion

The article is going be a bit long so I just stop here even-though I really want to share much more than that. If anyone has any experiences and things to share please comment below, I would love to know what you think about doing the first dev job and difficulties that you are facing.
Finally, I wish everyone has a lovely Christmas with your loved one and family, and a wonderful new year 2020!!! ❤️