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I mean I have 6+ years of experience and I did screw up a lot of times, but nothing major like dropping the database or deleting everything or something like that. I did once accidentally rewrite a bunch of rows that I didn't intend to, but I always do dumps before I try anything like that, so I can recover it... Nothing really major comes to mind at least
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I don't know. I feel like people share their screwups if it's funny.
I mean screwing up is the job isn't it? You screw up, fix it up. Sometimes on your environment and sometimes on prod. Its not really worth sharing if there wasn't a funny story with it.
Actually. I change it a bit. We screw up so often it's not easy to pick out what's worth sharing and what's not -
many, even big drops and wrong rewrites of db w/o backup... fun times :D
and I think I told ya already the time I flooded our mails for days with the 'ultra tested' regex anti hacker shell script
... who don't have such stories. we took our lesson from them and now do such things only when necessary ;)
I often ask my colleagues about their mess ups on the job and that, to me, says a lot about them.
See, we devs have this unspoken rule between us (in my opinion) that we don't discuss our screw-ups whether it's the resume, the interview or at the job.
Are you really telling me that you've worked 5+ years in software industry and never messed up ONCE? Or were/are you in a position where you screwing up wouldn't create a dent for your team processes?
I can trust a dev more, who admits their screw ups because I know they have learned a valuable lesson and they are accountable for their actions.
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