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Two-year Developers. A 2020 Recap

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Boy, what a year!

When we look back at our last wrap-up episode for 2019, then reflect on what happened last year, we feel a little bit like...

Donald Glover watches an apartment burn

A lot of stuff happened last year, and honestly, 2021 hasn't started off much better. But! We're still here and still coding.

This week we reflect on being devs for 2+ years!

Are we senior devs yet? Mid-level? Do we still suffer from impostor syndrome?

Just what the heck happened to us in 2020?

Find out this week on Tech JR!


Show Notes:

  • 00:45 - intro
  • 01:26 - 2 years 3 months
  • 02:00 - are you a senior engineer?
  • 03:15 - Senior vs Lead
  • 04:45 - Working in the backend
  • 06:05 - Year recap (Lee)
  • 08:18 - Year recap (Eddie)
  • 09:48 - Charlie
  • 11:25 - Some of the interviewing Eddie did before landing Oddball
  • 14:45 - Interviewing at Oddball
  • 16:23 - Code challenges
  • 18:58 - Life lesson
  • 22:07 - Staying at a job longer than you should
  • 25:13 - Low points of the year
  • 27:10 - Raising kids during the pandemic
  • 28:05 - No toilet paper
  • 32:52 - Eddie got a puppy
  • 37:32 - 2020 recap
  • 44:29 - Nerd Minute
  • 44:38 - Tenet
  • 55:21 - New Mutants
  • 1:00:07 - Dark Phoneix
  • 1:02:08 - Moon Knight
  • 1:06:00 - Batman
  • 1:08:34 - Alice in borderland
  • 1:13:58 - Arcades
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Fri, February 12, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC