To be honest, I would have never guessed that I would end up saying these these things, especially jn the beginning of my career. As you become more experienced, you kind of get to see everything and you become less impressed by new things. Honestly there is some sort of repetitiveness in this field and we kind of like to reinvent the wheel quite often, because well, we become a bit too easily bored. Take for example how the web looks now, a lot of it has been borrowed from other places, mostly desktop development, especially the parts about making custom reusable components. Or from older frameworks, like state management in the UI which actually was first properly implemented in Asp .Net Webforms, as far as I know, something like 20 years ago, where you used to have the dreaded view state. But most likely something similar existed before that too. I was not that surprised when React adopted initially this idea. Or even less surprised when hooks where introduced that seemed a b
This past year I finally made a big leap in my career and joined on of the leading companies in this the software industry, it's been one of my lifelong dream to join such a company and now it happened. It's been quite a journey and I noticed a lot of things so far that I would have never imagined. Firstly, the scale of things is something that completely blows my mind. I never thought that I would be part of tens of teams, just in my local division in geographical region. Everything is massive and scattered around the globe with hundreds of teams out there. And getting so many teams to work together is really a challenge, especially making sure that they don't constantly reinvent the wheel. Or another very challenging aspect is the fact that no team is actually alone and depends on the work of many others teams. Here I noticed several skills that are really useful which I never though of before. One of the skills is getting the right information and reaching the r