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@C0D4 it is really getting onto my nerves now. Because i spend hours and hours stuck on a single item and no one is there to even look at me.
There was only this one senior who used to look at my code and would have a nice serious discussion with me asking to explain all my code. And most of the times i or he would be able to find the error and work happened with great pace.
But now i sit outside along with the other interns in a loud fckin noisy environment while he is working on some other project . The main senior i am supposed to report is saying what i previously said : that my project problems are too simple and should be solved by my own.
And what's worse is that they have been the best i have met. In other companies, i used to be the solo Android dev there and they just wanted to close their eyes and see magical code doing everything they wanted when they open their eyes. Else they would nag and question my abilities -
If this will always be the case,should i think about going into other profiles? This is the worst kind of pressure en employee could suffer : questioning of his abilities even though he's working hard and giving output
I sometimes think that this might not had been a case if someone else was also working alongside me on this project,aka doing the exact thing that i do, but that's also not the case most of the times in Android dev.
In web, at least you will be either a front end or a backend dev and have another guy working on the otherside who might also know what you are doing. -
@StopWastingTime it's an internship, ride it out and go work for another company at the end of it.
But yes this is typical if a senior is spread across multiple projects, the good ones will help anyway or at least give you an idea as to how to get on with it, the others will shrug you off and tell you to work it out.
As for your webdev comment, that's not entirely true 🙃
I'm a solo dev for 4 e-commerce sites, there's no front end or back end or sysadmin or devops guys, theres @C0D4 🦸♂️
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Okay Android dev intern here.
This has been an awfully weird experience for me as an Android dev and this is not the first time. I am seeing a pattern here and i don't know if its just bad luck or its the reality
I have always learned Android by searching on the web , on stack overflow, medium articles, youtube , books , etc.
Sometimes i had a vision to create some unique nd innovative app, nd sometimes i just wanted to learn a particular tech, framework, library, or a feature.
The former case sometimes required the knowledge of unexplored areas, so in order to make the possible product, the original idea would reduce to a smaller, more possible one if i thought it isn't possible or "need more resources on that" after several hours of searching.
But as an intern i found this approach not working out. Here the company gave me an app idea by a designer who thinks its possible, the senior Android dev also thinks its possible and i also believed it to be possible.
The thing is we all know its possible but the person working on it, i.e me, doesn't know have all the knowledge for it.
Fine . I will apply my usual time taking approach of searching and debugging to tackle my issues when they arrive.
But at one stage i too would get exhausted. To me , the code in my front is the correct code for this approach and i have checked all the possible cases, debugged it and yet can't find the issue.
Now the only thing i want is for my senior to look into it, tell me if its an architecture issue or is there any possible case that i missed.
But that's not what company wants. The senior says that he's involved in a lot of projects and my problem is too simple to be solved by solely myself. Now i am sitting here, with my code, exhausted and no longer willing to work here . (And that's maybe why it's my 4th internship and not first)
Am i the asshole fresher?is this always going to be the case? Am i the one running away from the problem and deserve all the lashing that i am getting for not completing the product and getting stuck?
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