During a stand up meeting, boss turns up to us and says: "Who can stay later today?" Many hands rise. Turns up to new dude, who isn't performing that well: "that performance report automation, it is due tomorrow now. Fuck it. Get it done." Left at 21:30 from the office with an MVP but I usually arrive at 7:00 so I was fucking exhausted. Now, my question is: who am I supposed to be pissed off? The boss who went apeshit on the new dude or the new dude that isn't getting shit done?

@Jase I think the same as you do. But I am not really blaming the education system.

My viewpoint is that education is much more difficult than we could imagine. For example, a well performed senior does not always good at teaching juniors. Because the senior may not know the proper way to teach.

I think teaching is actually a skill, it needs to be learned, practice, and improve. But not many mentors and managers think like that. Most of them just assume a junior is not qualified but not think of improving teaching methods.

I am not saying this is bad. But it is a choice. If you have no much way to teaxh, essentially you lose lots of opportunities to trained juniors before you want to give up them.

the worst part for my case where I work is we're looking to hire more junior devs around 21+. The problem? Hardly anyone can actually teach or knows how to mentor anyone. Just like what someone said above, this can be a vicious cycle. Even more vicious when the expected production output is high, and the level of experience from most teams is fairly low. therefore, the stress from your managers boss trickles down to your manager, which will trickle down to you and your team. Rather than try to slow things down and regulate everything going on for a team, instead everything is rushed and optimization is low in the list of priorities. And you know exactly what that means.

Codebases, written in Symfony 2.1, taking approx 1000ms to load a page. Why? Firewall. The fucking firewall.

Dammit, you're not making it look very good for someone looking to get their first real job next year...
Looks like life's going to be hard as hell for some of us 😥

Nope, that man I mentioned is a senior. We only ask our juniors to bring their brains to work, we teach the rest. Be confident man, aim to be a solver and it's all gonna be fine. Development it's just a tool. To me, programming is the best part of my day, dealing with the rest of bullshit it's what sucks.