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m3tr0s | 6 years ago

> In terms of skill level, you're absolutely fine, so don't worry too much about whether you should be better at certain things than others.

They fired me after 2.5 months working on the project, that's why I started to "worry" about my skills. They hired me as the only junior developer and as I think about it more and more, I'm starting to be sure not me wasn't enough, but a junior developer wasn't enough there in general.

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EnderMB|6 years ago

Ah, sadly that's fairly standard - hire a cheap junior developer, expect the world of them, and fire them if they show even the first sign of not being able to do everything they ask with 100% certainty.

It may not seem like it, but it's a good thing to experience a shitty company, because you'll learn as much from how to not do things as you will from the "right" way.

A lot of people have touched on the focusing part. To be honest, I think that you sound like an absolutely normal developer, and all you need is an opportunity to grow at a good company. Out of interest, have you considered working at an agency? In my experience, they're a nice place to start out, because you get to work on numerous small to medium sied code bases over the space of a year, and the breadth of work allows you to build your experience while keeping time pressure on.