Questions tagged [developer]
Related to software development and the role & function of software developers.
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As the only backend developer, how should I handle repeated challenges from my manager about core technical decisions?
I am the sole backend developer at my company, working mainly with .NET (C#) and SQL Server. My manager has a strong background in hardware and embedded systems, but not in backend, OOP, or web ...
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Do I always need to follow my supervisor's instructions?
I am paid by the company to be under the project manager as a development resource. But this other developer on my team who was supposed to be my supervisor for a short period keeps using me for his ...
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Struggling with Overwhelming Expectations and Project Pressure
I’m a tech lead with total 15 years of experience.
From last 3 years, I am working in a complex legacy project which is 15 years+ old.
Recently, a 1-line fix took me 2 days due to deeply coupled, ...
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What should I do if I keep missing points of interests in my work? [closed]
So I'm a somewhat new outsourced employee currently working in a bank's IT department (about 4 months in the bank).
During the course of my job so far, I am often handed smaller parts of the projects, ...
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Recently laid off senior frontend developer doesn’t feel very senior and is looking for advice
I have fifteen years of experience in frontend (and some backend) development.
However, my skills have atrophied thanks to some bad personal life and mental health struggles over the past few years, ...
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How do I deal with a coworker whose poor work quality is impacting my personal life and career growth?
I’m a Senior Frontend Engineer at a subsidiary of a major European grocery delivery company, and right now, So right now we are building a new version of our core product. We started this project over ...
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Raising grievence after PIP has been super delayed
I was put on PIP in May, it was suppose to last for 1 month, but when asked in weekly (1 month later), my skip manager who is shadowing my new manager, told th HR is really busy with business being ...
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Open source work vs paying work and unsolicited contacts/help requests/job offers [closed]
Perhaps this is not appropriate for workplace.stackexchange but bear with me. I'm an indie software developer that makes a living splitting my time between maintaining and managing sales of an app I ...
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Manager asked for home address without giving a reason. Should I have provided it? [closed]
I'm a developer in an individual contributor role. I'm on a team with 3 other developers and one liaison/PM role. We have a manager, who I'll call "Steve". I was moved onto Steve's team only ...
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Is it legal for my company to force me to use my personal computer for work? [closed]
I'm a software engineer with 4 years of experience. I landed a job while in college as a junior dev for the same company I'm with now (3 years total at this current company) making 39k. I now make ...
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.NET developer test
I'm writing to ask if a company might serve as a suitable fit for me.
One firm I am applying to informed me that they would use external tests to evaluate my knowledge of .NET developing skills if I ...
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Small projects for improving development
TLDR: How big and what kind of programming projects do you create just to learn new things as a software developers?
Recenlty, I realized that due to some legacy projects I worked with, my programming ...
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Is it common that the sales team haggle with software vendors? [closed]
My employer is a small software company that builds enterprise application software. I am a dev manager, managing a team of about 10 developers. One thing I always feel uncomfortable with is that our ...
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advice around promotion during web development placement [duplicate]
I live in England and started a 1-year web development industrial placement in September between 2nd and now 4th year of Comp Sci degree at a very large company with 5+ sites.
4 weeks in, the only ...
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Master's degree in Computer Science but I am a bad developer
I will soon graduate and have done some internship and am currently working as a web developer on the side (fullstack with Angular and Spring/Asp.net).
I have 3 years of experience (only in my college ...
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