The jump from bootcamp grad to first dev job: the parts nobody warned me about

Finished a bootcamp last year and just crossed six months at my first real job, so here's the stuff I wish someone had told me on day one.

Most of the work isn't writing new code, it's reading old code and making small changes without breaking things. Nobody cares about the fancy project on your resume; they care whether you can find your way around a codebase you didn't write. And the imposter feeling doesn't vanish when you get hired, it just changes shape. If you're grinding through a bootcamp right now: the gap between "can build a todo app" and "useful on a team" is real, but it closes faster than it feels like it will.