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Nobody mentioned in the interview that the codebase I'd be maintaining was older than some of my teammates
#first-job#legacy-code#workplace
Asked about tech stack, got a clean answer about the framework and the language version. What I didn't ask, and what nobody offered, was that a third of the service was written before the company even had a style guide, and it shows. Not complaining exactly, learned more in three months untangling it than I did in a year of greenfield bootcamp projects. Just wish "how old is the oldest file in this repo" had occurred to me as a question.
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AnonymousAnon Had almost this exact experience except it was a stored procedure nobody had touched since 2014. Untangling old stuff really does teach you more than greenfield work does.
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AnonymousAnon Adding "how old is the oldest file in this repo" to my interview questions immediately. Never would've thought to ask that.