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Originally Posted by :::grimReaper:::
Yes, I'm on new project/subprojects. What's your experience like?
The larger a project gets, and the older it is, the more thought each additional feature takes. You have to start thinking about consistency, there are lots more places that could have unexpected consequences, there are maybe more "users" of the software and you have to consider their needs and expectations.
If you're modifying an existing feature then even more so. And of course any large project involves finding and fixing bugs, some of which may be very subtle, or rare, or difficult to invoke yourself.
If you're trying to tune the performance of something, or trying to find a bug in something, you will do way more reading that writing of code. If you're trying to modify a system to support a new feature, you'll probably do more reading and code navigating than actually writing.
I work on a series of related projects - a set of services. These total about 150k LOC between python and JS.
I work on a C++ project that is absolutely not my own - it's an open source project that we've forked and modified. It's enormous and complicated, I spend way more time reading than writing in that. It's not uncommon for me to spend 2 days in there and only commit 5 lines (I will have added/removed more lines than that in the process, but not a lot more. Maybe 100)
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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
Refusing to google the thing you are trying to build and only looking up language semantics is hilarious.
I forget that exact example but I think it had to do with filtering/sorting two lists and was actually probably more like 5 lines and the rest I had to add.
I'm not against using google. I just used google to figure out how to use TLS1.2 in windows powershell to download a file (it defaults to 1.0 and *fails* if that's not available). I happily copy/pasted the solution from stack overflow.
But I would think it was odd if someone was "mostly" copyiny/modifying from the internet, or really, even if it was a lot.
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Originally Posted by adios
What was the feedback you got in general terms?
My boss agrees, I think his boss does too, but theirs does not. It's a bit of a story that I can't give too much details on, but my impression is that they feel they have not always been successful with their hiring, so they needed to step it up.
I feel that no one is really as successful with their hiring as they *think* they should be