What was your first dev job like? What did you work on? What was your most memorable experience?

Documentation. Three months. I then killed myself. I think I’m a ghost now.

@allthingsinmod holy cow

@CoffeeNcode yea I am at my first job and I doing tons of DB work. After I get that sorted I’ll be working on some pho stuff too. Congrats on the new job!

Mine was converting an EDI translation tool from C++ to C#.

It was built by the elder dev, and nobody else knew how it worked.

We spent months meticulously converting it.

Ran it. It didn’t work. Mostly because bills had been legit values in the C++ one (pointers), but broke everything in C#.

It also had never been properly tested, so there were bugs customers relied on, that we had to replicate (yep...).

I ended up having to build a test tool that would run both versions over an input after CI build. It had to be able to determine if the outputs were similar enough, with zero knowledge of the schema, and handling differing time outputs and dynamic code in the translation process. It was a huge fudge of heuristic thinking and it was beautiful 👍

Company not so much. Total boys club. Nepotistic family run. Backwards. Homophobic etc.

I’m bound by contract so can’t reveal who they are.