Timeline for Is this ordinary workplace experiences for a job in Software Engineering?
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 14:43 | comment | added | Mawg | Thanks for very good comment (sorry, I am out of upvotes for today). Subversion might be easier than Git, but any version control will do, if only for himself. And unit testing is the best bang for his buck - automated, of course. It wouldn't hurt to "Lint" the code either. Thanks for giving a new guy some idea of what the real working world entails. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 14:18 | comment | added | Colin Young | OP could implement version control on their own (install and learn git on their own workstation). Ditto for unit testing. That's where I'd suggest they start. The others will naturally flow from there (what do I unit test? I guess I better figure out and document the requirements...) FWIW I've been doing agile for years, and yes, we do some version of all of that. The agile definition of "project" is also a lot smaller than in typical waterfall | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | Mawg | As to lifecycle, let’s agree to disagree. I am in embedded and that’s till the way it gets done & will probably always be done, especially for large or government or military projects. I can see that front-end stuff might need to be “quicker to market” and “agile”, but even If he only ever codes PHP, it ought to be necessary to do most of those, and how can it hurt to at least understand them? I only threw that in because it looks like he has had no training in what s/w development looks like. Feel free to post an alternative & I will take no offence. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | Mawg | I agree that he should start looking now. It's just there seems to be a general consensus around here that a year is a god length of time to avoid being labelled a job hopper, but the OP is in a toxic, low paying, earn nothing no-upside situation and should look elsewhere ASAP (but never quit without a job to go to). | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 11:42 | comment | added | Douwe | I don't see any merit in staying the year tbh, learn nothing to earn next to nothing so you can write a year of nigh worthless experience in you resume? Why? Also, the process you describe, while not uncommon, is in no way typical (anymore). Chances are OP will never have to deal with that in his career. (and aside, simply iterating the waterfall does not make the process "agile") | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:49 | history | edited | Mawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:39 | history | answered | Mawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |