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I'm working at this company where I have to update their app both for Android and iOS and it was originally coded by what seems to be one guy, that has written some of the worse code I've seen (I've seen pretty bad code when I was at uni), there is so much uncommented code, commented code with no real reason on why it's commented, variables that are one or two letters, Lots and Lots of magical numbers for things like images! And for the first few weeks working on the iOS app I was also still learning objective-c and had to look at his code for reference, I cringed so much.

I take pride in my commented code, I take pride in writing description for methods and having my variables at the top of a class and explain exactly why it's a constant. I'm also only just a recent graduate.

This guy that worked out this app is a senior developer, now working on security software for a bank, how is he even allowed to code?

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  • 1
    I've come to realise senior means nothing, I've met a few developers that are only senior because of the length of time they have been in the industry. I've also met some fantastic developers some senior, some not.
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    @theImposter lucky you this guy must be able to trick everyone he knows or something I think he may have been a politician in his past life lol, though yeah I found that out through being the code janitor :/
  • 2
    I guess the good thing is that after a couple months learning objective-c from absolutely scratch I have an example of what not to do, being used along side code that is more or less what to do, I hope the person that takes over can at least see that lol.
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