HAPPY Friday!!!
As I am here, dreaming about my first DEV job, I felt like asking you:
What's something funny that you did or happened to you about your first job?
-Maybe something that wasn't that funny at the time but now when you look back you can't help but laugh.
-Or maybe something about the interview that closed the deal.
-Or whatever comes to mind.
Give me some inspirational laughs people.!
Oldest comments (93)
I got my first job by showing off a 3D rainbow dinosaur model done in WebGL🕺
Lol I would have hired you after that too !!
I used .length function in c interview 😂
😂😂😂😂 ops
Force of habit, we can't escape
Someone came to visit offices, as CEO wasn't there I made the visit
Turned out he was an FBI agent investigating on the company :/
Wow! That IS heavy 😅
We had a similar issue in my office not quite long. Though I was not the contact person, seriously I know how this looks like
I was broke and looked pretty disheveled when I got my first dev job and when I showed up on my first day somebody called security on me while I was waiting in the lobby 😐
LOL that was Savage, sorry Ben 😅 hope it makes you laugh now 😂
LOL.
I was so broke, had dreadlocks and the company policy was against that so I had to do my hair by myself, looked like a homeless person at a corporate office 😅😅😅😅
Damm those silly policies 😂 I bet people noticed you ,😂😂
People did notice and they still make fun of me since then 😅😅😅
I was working one afternoon when I heard a couple of fart noises coming from a set of speakers in a desk nearby, it kept happening and happening... I was confused and somewhat entertained by it, I then realized the speakers were attached to a Raspberry pi and my boss subtlety laughing at the back of the office.
We then made a clock than farted the hour xD xD
(yup, it was a startup)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg a farting clock , lol lol lol
I had to do a test with a couple of technical questions to estimate how my skills were and some general knowledge questions.
I was so nervous that I somehow managed to get the technical questions right and failed at the most basic question about how many states Germany had that time and what the names were... 😂
After the interviewer reviewed my answers, he was a bit confused, asked me this question, I answered correctly and told him I had a mind block on that question during the test.
(Got the job) and we laughed about it.
😂😂😂 hey, at least you got the job!!!!
True 😊
My first job as a developer instead of a sysadmin (which is actually my current job) finally made me seriously consider getting a Mac despite my significant dislike of Apple (not fond of macOS, and I like hardware I can repair myself without needing electrical engineering skills).
The funny part about this is that I don't technically need a Mac for work, I just finally got tired of pestering my colleagues (all of whom are in different timezones than me) whenever I need to test some code on macOS.
I feel you, not an Apple fan either 😅 but sometimes it helps to test !
in that time hackintosh was not a thing yet? or it was not possible to do it in your conditions?
Actually, this is essentially right now, so yes, Hackintosh is technically a thing.
I dismissed a Hackintosh as an option for two reasons:
From a quick look on the US Amazon, here's what ~$800 can get you:
Board *reportedly works fine with hackintosh.
More powerful and almost just as small form factor :)
*tonymacx86.com/threads/deskmini-31...
I was hire for Motion graphics, and they say in some cases I will throw some html and css in the project.
now I'm the Lead front-end developer of our own templeate engine.
No more 3d graphics in Cinema4d or AE motion graphics for me this days, only code code and more code.
I'm the todologo in the company (front-dev && Motion graphics) 🐒
By the way my job is not that hot at all I build, design and make animated videos for online Courses about Security awarness on the internet, GDPR, HR and other things for the Seniors and not tech people.
Wow it sounds like you do A LOT of different things!
And it does sound cool 😎
yes the problem is that I can not fully master one.
Soo much to learn 😭
yes but is fun,I love the feeling when finaly you make the screen to output whatever you where looking to display at that time! I doesn't mader if is code, video, render, illustartion when you make that breakthrough, you get hook with that sensation
😍
Yes, you are not the only one who can't master everything :) same happens to me in my company, I try to lead, but have to be reading ALL the time! And I love to write code, but at this time I have to stop coding, do more code review and read more, that's it, you can't be a Team Leader and be a Developer at the same time, or you lose time to guide your Team. But of course that's how I see it.
I dropped half of the QA db. They called me bobby tables for a while. Lucky it was QA honestly
😂
Mu first projects was a website and maded with and flash
Flash brings back memories 😂
My first job as a C++ dev saw me write 6 lines of C++ and made me become a devops engineer because they didn’t realise that’s what they actually wanted
😂😂😂 we are not sure what we want but you are hired lol
I got my first dev job after admitting that I had never used the language before and knew nothing about it. I was going to be the only dev in the organization and they would eventually hire a large team around me.
Wow that is cool!
Hey idk it, but plz hire me 😂😂
Same for me 😎
Future Chef: „We are using C++“
Me: „Never used it, but programming is more [...] the rest is just Syntax“.
Got the job, learned a LOT (not only Syntax), had a lot of fun, but had to follow the love of my life and left a year later.
On my last day at this startup:
After working 11+ hr days for the last 2 months, I had just run a db migration via postman a few days prior but left the tabs open :)
While showing a new guy my common-use postman routes, I accidentally hit “enter” and dropped part of the db cache :D
Good thing I had the resync routes in the next tab, good thing it was a Friday at 7pm, and good thing it was my last day LOL byyyeee
Woooooow 😂😂😂😂 great away to leave 😂😂😂
the best thing was it was your last day
I sent an email and one day later, I had an interview with the founder of the company. I should built an simple guestbook and I got the job. Today, I'm still there... It's 12 years ago.
At the end of the last year, I decided to leave the company. It wasn't easy for me but I think after such a long time I want to see something else.
Wow 12 years? That is awesome!!!
It's a long time. I was the third employee and today the company has 50 people. A lot of people came and go in this time.