Things I learnt over a year of being SDE
Every person has a bunch of decisions they have made or things they have done that they look back to and think — Oh, I wish I done it differently! Like they say, hindsight is 20/20. Well, here I am sharing some decisions I made as a developer that I look back to and wish I had done something different. These include both soft skills and tech skills. Also, I joined a fairly large organisation so my learnings will have that angle to them but I hope it would still apply to anyone starting their career in software development.
As the age-old adage goes — do not bite more than you can chew. Especially relevant when you are just beginning. I was enthusiastic about doing things and overly so. I wanted to prove myself, establish myself as someone who could get things done. So when I saw an opportunity to do something — whether voluntarily or being asked by someone — I would unhesitatingly say yes thinking that I would somehow make time for it. Maybe work over a weekend, or log off late. Amazing on paper, not so much in reality. I ended up with parallel tasks that I took longer to complete and with lesser quality than it would have been had I taken them up one after the other. Like one of my colleagues jokingly said — parallelisation is a myth, especially so for humans.
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