In any standup meeting, the guy doing the most stupid and random shit is most likely the senior. The guy who talks and looks so formal is always the junior.
You had me at "What is a PR... software engineering". I can't tell you how many times I've searched some initials and get some random description, and then add "software engineering" to get the meaning I want.
The best part is the code reviewer accepting that minuscule code change after 5 hours of work, without getting angry or anything, because he's perfectly aware of the insane overhead of working with an awful codebase
@@ayl247 They’ve done it too then. Haha. I shut down a call center which does 15k average calls daily by accidentally moving a ticket to the wrong swim lane. The ci/cd process kicked and moved a bunch of pre-prod (as in old dev stuff) code to prod. My bosses just thanked me because I instantly told them once I realized what I had done. (No one know the ci/cd process had been tied to our Kanban boards so they got mad at Ops lmao)
@@nicholast so should i focus more on learning git, github and (please tell me what else) than programming as a SE major? I'm quite new to programming and I'll be studying bachelor's of SE after a couple of months. Any advice, tips and reply is appreciated.
the amount of accuracy in this video is hilarious, if somebody is still studying programming or preparing to enter his first startup as an intern and wondering how will it be, this is 99% what you will find there, no jokes
Unless you apply at this modern IT startup that's making new products for other companies and expect you to make the entire app which includes the designs, frontend and backend development. So I will probably mostly apply to non tech companies in the future.
@@nicholast That part really hit home for me as the only developer in my department who has a manager who is not a developer.. It's difficult to show what I've been working on to someone who doesn't understand any of what I'm doing. And sometimes a big complicated task looks like a tiny insignificant piece of code. Edit for clarity. I'm not the only developer who has a manager who's not a developer. I have a manager who's not a developer and I'm the only developer. I just realized it may have sounded like I was saying all the other developers have managers who are developers. Nah. I'm the only one.
@@williamdowling7718 yeah sometimes when we are asked for timelines on a task, it just becomes difficult to give one since the task on paper would look simple and the final work would also seem simple, but many don’t understand the amount of effort it takes to reach that one simple solution, many approaches would have been tried which would have flopped before reaching that one solution. It takes a lot of effort to come up with a simple solution that works in all conditions. Luckily my manager used to code long ago and understands my issues which I would have faced in completing the task.
This is literally sooo relatable, when I started I had no idea what a PR was but over time I got use it. Just a tip test your changes locally before you deploy them. You don't want to be burdened with the fact that maybe your change broke the entire program. Happy coding!!
If this is as accurate as everyone says it is I don’t need to feel so inadequate. Should help me be less nervous in interviews and actually land one of these bad boys. Thanks for making this!
I started a student job as a SE last month and it was scary how accurate this was xD My first ticket was basically just replacing all occurrences of a word with another.
@@linarionschonmar1572 Word replacements may feel stupid, from the logic point of view. But they become extremely important from legacy management or traceability point of view. Maybe 2 months down the line or possibly 3 years later.
Dev here, the hardest part of the job is in the interview with companies thinking they're like Google so they ask google-level stuff. After that it's mostly just trying your best to look qualified for your salary while doing mundane shit.
When I started as an intern, I wasn't even familiar with git. There was this one time when my changes were approved and I pushed my changes with some extra changes which were not present in the code review. After that the build started failing for everyone when they took the pull, probably the most embarrassing and stressful situation I have been lol.
I'd say most don't know about git or don't know how it work, what i found funniest is that he didn't use the built in git tools but used the terminal 😂
I'm an intern chillin watching youtube videos while I wait for the senior programmer to review/accept my giant pull request before I can proceed and this is what youtube recommends me COOL
This is so relatable. My first week as a contractor at a big tech web company, the homepage went down while I was at lunch and the system's error had my name on it. I came back and was told "they are looking for you...". Turns out it was just a system bug from something I did and not my fault. So scary!
Thats sooo true. My first task also seemed easy and eventually kind of wasnt that hard, but suddenly having to work with a huge code base was realy scary and I got lost very often browsing the files xD
@@rewrose2838 nah not high enough stakes. You need to suffer soul crushing hours with a deadline too scared of asking a stupid question until you're demoralized to the point of wanting to switch careers. That's when you finally learn how to navigate a new codebase. You master the art of getting mad at the codebase instead of yourself.
I just started as a software engineer intern and every single thing in this video has been my exact experience. Especially spending an hour finding the thing in the files! 😂
@@dackli512 No, you have to find where that piece of code lives in the codebase. You can only get the element's id, class, and maybe some css properties from inspect element.
Just don't be that guy that's known to take forever for everything. :) Unless of course you're consistently churning out some seriously kick ass code with few to no bugs. Then by all means, take a long time.
This is terrifyingly accurate lmao, I just started my SE internship in May and coming in I felt like a dumbass bc my classes did not prepare me at all for what it was really like. Making my first commit made me dummy nervous. They had me start out by fixing a bunch of unit tests that'd broke in a recent change to our test database, now I'm doing a bunch of front end cases. Super fun tho. And I swear it takes me longer to find the file/section of code I need than it takes me to make the actual changes, smh
I remember my internship was something like this... but not quite. First few weeks I had tasks left and right and I felt like I was actually working. Then I began to have periods of having 0 things to do, and when I asked if I could help on something or start looking into an old ticket, they just said "No, we would prefer a senior to do that." So I sat there, doing nothing because there was absolutely nothing to do related to the internship and simultaneously being judged for not doing any work.
@@gabrielpacheco8125 Hey! The internship was a part of my vocational studies. The company sent a letter to my teacher telling him that I needed to learn a lot more and that I wasn't really active (How can I be active if there's nothing to do?). After I finished my internship I went back home and started working on a fullstack project for a few weeks to show to my teacher that I actually know how to work fullstack. I ended up graduating as a fullstack developer.
yeah bro, i feel it because i used to be like you. company don't let me do anything just tell me to learn the code by reading the whole project. i tell my PM to let me some task that i can learn from it but no, they said i still don't have any exp to do the task so just learning from reading code. i feel no good and nothing to learning and do so i was quit and find another intern job
Hi Nicholas, I actively hire software engineers myself and I really find your videos helpfull to create the best environment for our interns and engineers!
My "internship" was a mess. Started as a team of 3 devs, the others left due to horrendous pay and I stayed because Lead Developer for my first job sounded pretty good.. it's helped me get a stellar next job but it was a nightmare. Was expected to work 24/7 cause they needed it done yesterday and weren't fussed about cutting corners so they expected me to be the same. Was the only dev on the project and was expected to meet with various people like the payment providers etc and introduce new devs who quickly left after speaking to my "manager" for more than 5 minutes. I was subcontracted out for more than I was being paid then expected to complete my original work in the time I was meant to spend of the contracted work. Only positive is that I learned a lot having to do everything myself (barring the contracted job) and now I've got a nice paying job for my age so it's worked out somewhat but jesus christ interns have it bad. I didn't even apply as one just became one and it was a nightmare I feel for the ones who go in willingly.
After finishing my degree and 6 months of working it finally happened to me. I was being so damn careful since I started working, since I knew a mistake from me would cause 20 other developers to not being able to work. Not a fun experience...
Not to sound rude sorry but why do i see many comments about interns in software engineering/developer who doesnt know what to do? Do they learn these before in University or not?
@@backkom7276 In my case I'm doing my internship on full stack web development, using technologies that I had never used before. I knew some javascript but that was about it. I'm in 3rd year of college btw. I've learned lots of stuff but it takes some time to learn a new technology anyway
@@backkom7276 college teaches you some foundations that you need to be a good developer. you have to learn the technologies yourself, i've gotten into an internship without knowing anything about the tech i was gonna use
@@prassanak3601 i didn't have coding interviews for the internship. i did get asked a few technical questions but nothing too hard, and it was more about the basics of web development. as for what i said i just explained my motivation, the way my school works and why i'm ready for a project, and that i've done a project in the .NET environment before (even though it was scuffed as hell but i didn't tell him that)
Excellent Nic! It refreshed my memory being a CS co-op student as a FoxBase programmer 30+ yrs ago, there was no Google back then, manual was on paper, no GUI either but DOS…. I probably don’t understand half of the terms in this video… But I believe the fundamentals are the same! Wish you the best for your IT endeavour (if that is the career you choose).
And I remember going on to forums for any kind of tid bit...no searches for anything. These days coding and finding solutions to problems is so super easy! Ah yeah I had to write out the code on paper and pencil or white board. Then the interviewer would plug the code into his compiler...and I just sat there shitting bullets. These days interviews are so cake lol...you got all the resources at your fingertips. :P
@@danielddd123 you can right click in any component of the page and inspect it, it will give you the html and css properties of the page, there you can disable, change or add things. Doing that is basically manipulating the page via developer tools
One of the first things they had me do at my internship was build this whole feature, I ended up with a PR that had 2000 additions and I did a damn good job if I do say so myself
Many software enginneer companies adopt a blameless culture, so if you end up exploding the production, your team would just discuss how to avoid it to happen again in the future (by improving coding review, adding more tests before deployment, etc)
My first job as an intern was developing an entire web service with 20 operations, schemas, wsdl, connection with the database... I did it pretty well!
Clearly when the intern copy and pasted the line into file, they inadvertently changed two tabs to 4 spaces. This didn't show up in the diff because it was set to ignore whitespace changes. The backend reading this file was poorly constructed, and could only handle tabs here, thus causing the file to fail to be read and the page to go down. Except since this was a style read by the entire website (even though it wasn't used directly elsewhere), it basically caused the entire website to go down. Moral of the story: Always have a staging ground where changes go to be tested by QA. Don't push directly to live! And DEFINITELY don't allow merges that don't pass CI!
Yeeeaaa, that'll do it. This is exactly how I felt working with tailwind for the first time. I'd spend hours looking over the css wondering where the conflicts in grids were happening or why the text wasn't inline.
Just remember that people approving PRs do a lot of them, in addition to their usual duties. So context in the PR is the only thing keeping their day from grinding to a halt!
Really relatable. I am far away from calling myself a software engineer (still studying and before Uni I havent coded once or did anything with computers besides playing and surfing on the internet)... But, the more I've "moved" in the tech field the more I unterstood that: Stackoverflow is your friend ;-D
Your vids are so funny, I haven't LOL'd this hard in a while, beginner programmer in my last semester looking for jobs in coding now and been watching your videos, making me feel a lot better and giving me so many good laughs in the process.
I remember three months into my internship when I wasn't writing documentation anymore, I wrote my first big piece of code. It broke production and over 500k requests couldn't log into our platform.
My guess is it’s less likely to have a huge impact on the site if you make changes (imagine they have you a backend task and you deleted a db table or transferred money to a random user lmaoo)
I think frontend is comparatively easy to pick up rather than the backend as an intern plus I think it's easier to share the impact and the changes you did with the other people as it's easily visible, most of the times.
Because a frontend ticket is likely a single component, on a single spot. A backend issue is likely touches many spots and requires a larger architectural understanding of whatever you're working on. Also, every software dev that's worked for a few years will have a horror story or 3 about when they blindly trusted a junior and shot themselves in the foot lol
1:28 Instead of overcomplicating it, just do Right click and Inspect element, it tells you directly what area of the code is in charge of it. And save yourself an hour :)
As an intern I never destroyed a website,then we got another intern 5 weeks in. All she had to do is change some text in the footer of a page. We had to rollback the site it was fucked. Even my boss didn't know how she could fuck it up so much.
@@PedroTechnologies So how was your interview? I mean, if it was problem-solving oreinted then how was it, was it really tough like those of FAANG type? Or it was based on resume shortlisting?
My first ever commit when I was intern During my internship I committed some changes to a file in the development branch instead of creating second branch for me, the moment I pushed the code I received a call in less than a minute telling me that "Did you just committed your code in dev branch?? I told you to make a separate branch and create a PR" hahahahaha it was fun and scarry at the same time
I have had a senior who would directly push into develop. He said that's it waste of time to make new branch and pr since it's going to work 100% anyways 😁
@@nicholast Did you for real break something though? This video calmed me down a bit about first days at a real software development job and then the message at the end appeared and I'm lowkey scared again. xD
I wish I got such an "easy" task as my first intern task. I had to add a new input to a profile settings page and write frontend validation for it (phone number). it was sooooo scary lol
I had to fix a bug I found on the web app as my first ticket lol and that was scary considering I didn’t know anything about the company code at the time.
That moment when your bug fix introduces a bug… I was watching my manager demo our software to PMs, when I instantly recognized a regression that I introduced in a PR earlier that week. Really made me realize the important of internal demos to catch stuff like this, and also testing all cases before checking in my code!
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It’s intern season
yessssssir
I'm one now
Praying that this doesn't happen to me 🙏
it's intern season
The search about PR is so relatable 😂. When my mentor first asked me to send a MR I did the same search…
The most relatable thing was him googling the embarassing questions in incognito mode
cant let people know how noob i am
Lol 😂
who df check your history anyway?
Hahaha, here is a question from a total noob,
"Do software engineers work with C/C++ only? I only know Python , html, css, JS, ReactJS"
I feel attacked
I’m a Senior SE and that dude walking outside during a meeting like “yeah I did some stuff and I guess I’ll do some more” is real life.
the senior engineers are always outside during standup haha
I just recently turned SE and can confirm this is a thing. Only thing for me is I'm still in bed lol
omfg, my senior colleague is like that all the meetings, driving, going somewhere, outside walking, always
In any standup meeting, the guy doing the most stupid and random shit is most likely the senior. The guy who talks and looks so formal is always the junior.
tech lead is always at the airfield or walking the dog or cycling haha
If you took down production with align: center you need a pay raise.
facts
From a competitor
Facts
*text-align
Hacker status 😂😂😂😂
You had me at "What is a PR... software engineering".
I can't tell you how many times I've searched some initials and get some random description, and then add "software engineering" to get the meaning I want.
"How to kill all children" wait that doesn't look right "how to kill all children software engineering"
@@christianeilers7663 XD
@@christianeilers7663yeah we definitely could be put on a list if the 'software engineer' or 'programming' wasn’t attached at the end
I literally did this a minute ago, when searching for the meaning of LGTM🤣
A PR is a personal record.
The most you ever lifted.
The best part is the code reviewer accepting that minuscule code change after 5 hours of work, without getting angry or anything, because he's perfectly aware of the insane overhead of working with an awful codebase
He probably remembers his first PR
I just put in my first PR ever and this sequence of events happened with a nightmare of a code base... And the entire team was cool with it lol
@@ayl247 They’ve done it too then. Haha. I shut down a call center which does 15k average calls daily by accidentally moving a ticket to the wrong swim lane. The ci/cd process kicked and moved a bunch of pre-prod (as in old dev stuff) code to prod. My bosses just thanked me because I instantly told them once I realized what I had done. (No one know the ci/cd process had been tied to our Kanban boards so they got mad at Ops lmao)
@@hyakushiki9438 is this JIRA ?
@@thunderbolt997 of course!
Github: All checks have failed
Manager: LGTM!
the accuracy on this, except they'd ping you like 30 times with one word messages once anything broken happens
we should fire the manager smh
What's LGTM? Let's Get This Mread?
@@BrainDeadz looks good to me
@@Wickedlizerd let's go to mars
By far the most realistic example of the daily life of an SE I've ever seen. It's scary how accurate this is.
Honestly spend more time looking stuff up than writing code
Really..? How is that even close to engineering? He didnt even write code how is that relatable lmao
@@TehGettinq ur writing code as a software engineer??
@@TehGettinq Because he didn't write code.
@@nicholast so should i focus more on learning git, github and (please tell me what else) than programming as a SE major?
I'm quite new to programming and I'll be studying bachelor's of SE after a couple of months.
Any advice, tips and reply is appreciated.
the amount of accuracy in this video is hilarious, if somebody is still studying programming or preparing to enter his first startup as an intern and wondering how will it be, this is 99% what you will find there, no jokes
LOL I wish I could’ve watched this before my first internship
now i have lost all of my confidence to pursuit the career
Unless you apply at this modern IT startup that's making new products for other companies and expect you to make the entire app which includes the designs, frontend and backend development. So I will probably mostly apply to non tech companies in the future.
I will start as a software engineer intern in july 2nd, I can center a div...I think...
@@kareklopodaros In their codebase?
The "All checks have failed" at 3:33 for a single line of CSS had me on the floor.
"Oh that seems easy!"
also him: *Wait how do you center the text?*
LMAO
Not an intern for a long time now, still relatable af
Googling the right question was easy, wasn't it? xD
"let's see what this intern has been up to for the last 5 hours"
X: text-align : left
O: text-align : center
Lmfao
Productivity 📈📈
@@nicholast That part really hit home for me as the only developer in my department who has a manager who is not a developer.. It's difficult to show what I've been working on to someone who doesn't understand any of what I'm doing. And sometimes a big complicated task looks like a tiny insignificant piece of code.
Edit for clarity. I'm not the only developer who has a manager who's not a developer. I have a manager who's not a developer and I'm the only developer. I just realized it may have sounded like I was saying all the other developers have managers who are developers. Nah. I'm the only one.
After 3 years you can make a PR changing a >= comparator to just > in two days to fix a bug ticket
@@williamdowling7718 yeah sometimes when we are asked for timelines on a task, it just becomes difficult to give one since the task on paper would look simple and the final work would also seem simple, but many don’t understand the amount of effort it takes to reach that one simple solution, many approaches would have been tried which would have flopped before reaching that one solution. It takes a lot of effort to come up with a simple solution that works in all conditions. Luckily my manager used to code long ago and understands my issues which I would have faced in completing the task.
@@nicholast productivity STONKS
The most relatable thing was him making it count, playing it straight, not looking back, and not hesitating.
lol i sang that in my head
this was good 😂😂
big time rush
.........when you go BIG TIME
CI: "All checks have failed!"
Junior dev: "LGTM!"
mmmmyes clearly the intern's fault
This is literally sooo relatable, when I started I had no idea what a PR was but over time I got use it. Just a tip test your changes locally before you deploy them. You don't want to be burdened with the fact that maybe your change broke the entire program. Happy coding!!
or use one the 30 thousands test framework ?
Just recently started an internship as a software developer. Can confirm this is 100% accurate.
Welcome to roller coaster ride
Doing a software development internship over this summer and 90% of it is just me googling questions 😅
@@jeffstut55 mine is for a year and a half approximately, it's the same for me too😂
@@RiVaLBrite Quite the opposite here. My boss assigned me to solo develop an entire social media platform
Did you break something? XD
If you're intern breaks production that's the fault of whoever approved the PR.
How about we all share the blame a little bit? including the intern.
@@ZeZeBatata69 Never share the blame. It accumulates!
it worked on their local machine tho!
@@nicholast sofware auditor : sorry i changed the app.json a bit, my mistakes.
I always say that the reviewer is as much in fault as the author of the change. Lazy reviews are never okay.
If this is as accurate as everyone says it is I don’t need to feel so inadequate. Should help me be less nervous in interviews and actually land one of these bad boys. Thanks for making this!
The problem is getting in via interview is lot more difficult. Once accepted it's just a picnic!
I started a student job as a SE last month and it was scary how accurate this was xD My first ticket was basically just replacing all occurrences of a word with another.
@@linarionschonmar1572 Word replacements may feel stupid, from the logic point of view. But they become extremely important from legacy management or traceability point of view. Maybe 2 months down the line or possibly 3 years later.
Dev here, the hardest part of the job is in the interview with companies thinking they're like Google so they ask google-level stuff. After that it's mostly just trying your best to look qualified for your salary while doing mundane shit.
@@jeremy3882 You know that makes total sense. I was wondering why we get asked such questions when the code work is literally a walk in the park.
This is so hilariously accurate 😭😭 “what is a pr software development”
Done these type of things multiple times lmao
I've definitely added "software engineering" to search terms before because they came up with unrelated stuff
Me as an intern: commit -m "changed alignment of text heading to center"
Me three years later: commit -m "stuff"
😂
Me, yesterday: commit -m "commit"
When I started as an intern, I wasn't even familiar with git. There was this one time when my changes were approved and I pushed my changes with some extra changes which were not present in the code review. After that the build started failing for everyone when they took the pull, probably the most embarrassing and stressful situation I have been lol.
Why did it happen
oof at least you learned from that mistake!
I'd say most don't know about git or don't know how it work, what i found funniest is that he didn't use the built in git tools but used the terminal 😂
Well that's a lesson for the team as well. Always have branch protection.
I just learned git awesome tool to manage your projects
senior developer be like
LOL hence the 40 versions
this code should be illegal 😤😤
I just make a class 'text-center' tbh
Senior developers won't use any of this new CSS stuff. It's a fad which will pass soon.
or
@@EskoLuontola Senior devs use TailwindCSS.
I'm an intern chillin watching youtube videos while I wait for the senior programmer to review/accept my giant pull request before I can proceed and this is what youtube recommends me COOL
It’s meant to be LOL
This is so relatable. My first week as a contractor at a big tech web company, the homepage went down while I was at lunch and the system's error had my name on it. I came back and was told "they are looking for you...". Turns out it was just a system bug from something I did and not my fault. So scary!
the fear that must've caused 😳
It’s actually cool to give this kind of easy ticket to the intern, it boosts their confidence by achieving something during their first days
Thats sooo true. My first task also seemed easy and eventually kind of wasnt that hard, but suddenly having to work with a huge code base was realy scary and I got lost very often browsing the files xD
Working with a huge codebase is def a big change and it’s so hard to find the code you need to change
@@nicholast Would practicing by contributing to open source projects help get used to this?
@@rewrose2838 sounds like a good idea
@@rewrose2838 nah not high enough stakes. You need to suffer soul crushing hours with a deadline too scared of asking a stupid question until you're demoralized to the point of wanting to switch careers. That's when you finally learn how to navigate a new codebase. You master the art of getting mad at the codebase instead of yourself.
love how this *had* to be recommended to me towards the beginning of my internship lol
yt algorithm knows 👀
Mine is just ending lmao
Me toooo!!!
I just started as a software engineer intern and every single thing in this video has been my exact experience. Especially spending an hour finding the thing in the files! 😂
lol
navigating large codebases is hard
@@nicholast can you not just inspect element to find it and then it will be easier?
@@dackli512 No, you have to find where that piece of code lives in the codebase. You can only get the element's id, class, and maybe some css properties from inspect element.
@@Warmatx68 react devtools is a lifesaver
oh thank god so I'm not the only one that takes a humiliating long time to fix something super simple
Just don't be that guy that's known to take forever for everything. :)
Unless of course you're consistently churning out some seriously kick ass code with few to no bugs. Then by all means, take a long time.
This is terrifyingly accurate lmao, I just started my SE internship in May and coming in I felt like a dumbass bc my classes did not prepare me at all for what it was really like. Making my first commit made me dummy nervous. They had me start out by fixing a bunch of unit tests that'd broke in a recent change to our test database, now I'm doing a bunch of front end cases. Super fun tho. And I swear it takes me longer to find the file/section of code I need than it takes me to make the actual changes, smh
I remember my internship was something like this... but not quite.
First few weeks I had tasks left and right and I felt like I was actually working. Then I began to have periods of having 0 things to do, and when I asked if I could help on something or start looking into an old ticket, they just said "No, we would prefer a senior to do that." So I sat there, doing nothing because there was absolutely nothing to do related to the internship and simultaneously being judged for not doing any work.
Bro that sucks, what happend to you?
@@gabrielpacheco8125 Hey! The internship was a part of my vocational studies. The company sent a letter to my teacher telling him that I needed to learn a lot more and that I wasn't really active (How can I be active if there's nothing to do?). After I finished my internship I went back home and started working on a fullstack project for a few weeks to show to my teacher that I actually know how to work fullstack. I ended up graduating as a fullstack developer.
Going through something similar
yeah bro, i feel it because i used to be like you. company don't let me do anything just tell me to learn the code by reading the whole project. i tell my PM to let me some task that i can learn from it but no, they said i still don't have any exp to do the task so just learning from reading code. i feel no good and nothing to learning and do so i was quit and find another intern job
This happens all the time.
2021 interns be like - unemployed
It’s a struggle 😞
don't remind me
For real though… I’m a web dev and even finding an internship is impossible
New CS grad. 50 apps, no offer
@@MegaOfficeHours CS?
Hi Nicholas, I actively hire software engineers myself and I really find your videos helpfull to create the best environment for our interns and engineers!
glad you found them helpful :)
My "internship" was a mess. Started as a team of 3 devs, the others left due to horrendous pay and I stayed because Lead Developer for my first job sounded pretty good.. it's helped me get a stellar next job but it was a nightmare. Was expected to work 24/7 cause they needed it done yesterday and weren't fussed about cutting corners so they expected me to be the same. Was the only dev on the project and was expected to meet with various people like the payment providers etc and introduce new devs who quickly left after speaking to my "manager" for more than 5 minutes. I was subcontracted out for more than I was being paid then expected to complete my original work in the time I was meant to spend of the contracted work. Only positive is that I learned a lot having to do everything myself (barring the contracted job) and now I've got a nice paying job for my age so it's worked out somewhat but jesus christ interns have it bad. I didn't even apply as one just became one and it was a nightmare I feel for the ones who go in willingly.
geez man glad you're doing okay now. at least you can put lead dev into your cv i guess
I can't imagine html developing without Inspect element.
that shit is a life saver
skill issue, look 0 times, write once, hope 1000
You haven't been "productive" until you either break the build or crash the system.
its a rite of passage
After finishing my degree and 6 months of working it finally happened to me. I was being so damn careful since I started working, since I knew a mistake from me would cause 20 other developers to not being able to work. Not a fun experience...
@@Luckyyshot It’s ok. Stuff happens.
@@sdb584
I know. Just gotta learn from it and not make the same mistake again.
I'm a software engineering intern and this couldn't be more accurate, wow
Not to sound rude sorry but why do i see many comments about interns in software engineering/developer who doesnt know what to do? Do they learn these before in University or not?
@@backkom7276 In my case I'm doing my internship on full stack web development, using technologies that I had never used before. I knew some javascript but that was about it. I'm in 3rd year of college btw. I've learned lots of stuff but it takes some time to learn a new technology anyway
@@backkom7276 college teaches you some foundations that you need to be a good developer. you have to learn the technologies yourself, i've gotten into an internship without knowing anything about the tech i was gonna use
@@Aestareth_ If you don't know about the technologies, then what do you say during interviews?
@@prassanak3601 i didn't have coding interviews for the internship. i did get asked a few technical questions but nothing too hard, and it was more about the basics of web development. as for what i said i just explained my motivation, the way my school works and why i'm ready for a project, and that i've done a project in the .NET environment before (even though it was scuffed as hell but i didn't tell him that)
As far as depictions go, this was scary accurate. The production being down at the end is probably the most daunting feeling ever.
If you look closely when the junior dev is merging the PR you can see a little "all checks have failed" warning
"All checks have failed" - yep, sounds about right.
i actually hope cs staff are this chill, being a current cs student
Excellent Nic!
It refreshed my memory being a CS co-op student as a FoxBase programmer 30+ yrs ago, there was no Google back then, manual was on paper, no GUI either but DOS….
I probably don’t understand half of the terms in this video… But I believe the fundamentals are the same!
Wish you the best for your IT endeavour (if that is the career you choose).
wow coding must have been much much harder back then without nearly as many resources as we have today. thanks for the comment :)
Interesting! Where did you study?
And I remember going on to forums for any kind of tid bit...no searches for anything. These days coding and finding solutions to problems is so super easy! Ah yeah I had to write out the code on paper and pencil or white board. Then the interviewer would plug the code into his compiler...and I just sat there shitting bullets. These days interviews are so cake lol...you got all the resources at your fingertips. :P
Just started working as a software engineering intern this month...this was the most relatable video ever xD.
I started my first internship as a junior data scientist. You’re 100% accurate. 🙃
2:55 „Please make sure you are descriptive in your PR“ - The length of your description is amazing. 😂
I love all the little details in this video... Like the descriptions in the website and the bee movie script in the PR xD
Jokes on this fictional intern! You can make the change in Chrome, AND it will tell you the exact file the change goes too!
Nick the intern wishes he knew this before
@@vigneshrokzz if you were generating proper source map files the browser should know where stuff in the source code is (I think, I'm not a web dev).
Could you explain to me a bit more how this can be done? Or point me to a video/article? Thanks in advance!
@@danielddd123 you can right click in any component of the page and inspect it, it will give you the html and css properties of the page, there you can disable, change or add things. Doing that is basically manipulating the page via developer tools
Not if you use webpack….
One of the first things they had me do at my internship was build this whole feature, I ended up with a PR that had 2000 additions and I did a damn good job if I do say so myself
nice!
@@nicholast thanks dood! nice video btw
"PR denied. Line 334 doesn't follow style guide"
@@kanjakan if the guy reviewing my PR ever wrote "PR Denied" I would just about piss my pants
Oh I know that wonderful feeling, they made me implement two CRUDS for two models we persisted on our database through Laravel Eloquent
Reminds me of my first security internship. Felt like they gave me overly easy tasks. I still found a way to screw it up though.
Ah yes, im bouta do the same when i get hired, no matter where lol
haha many of us feel this way
Ok, i've been working as a SWE for about 2 weeks, and I can relate to this, omfg, you have a new subscriber ! :)
Thanks for subbing :)
the big time rush song tho hahahahahha
great video dude, it's our reality!
As someone who's considering to apply internship and insecure about it, this didn't help lol
same
Many software enginneer companies adopt a blameless culture, so if you end up exploding the production, your team would just discuss how to avoid it to happen again in the future (by improving coding review, adding more tests before deployment, etc)
@@wdsrocha that’s actually very nice
Honestly bro this kinda makes me kinda happy just make a habit to code everyday even if it’s an hour muscle memory
Fr don't be afraid of impostor syndrome, its so common in IT, you won't break prod with your css change ( was also my first task lmao)
bruh, thats me XD
How do i center text again?
*Goes on W3Schools*
100 %
great video
w3schools is a life-saver
@@nicholast margin left:25%;margin-right25%
Just to make the design have some extra 'spice' to it.
@@nicholast Aye no cap I'm litterly using W3schools right now to learn Python.
Must use MDN.... MDN >> W3Schools
I don't even know why this is entertaining!
Whenever I go to practice coding I just end up rewatching these. Good job man!
Exact representation of my internship this summer. So relatable I am laughing. Even I broke the production code once during my internship.
My first job as an intern was developing an entire web service with 20 operations, schemas, wsdl, connection with the database... I did it pretty well!
thats impressive, congrats!
for anyone wondering, LGTM stands for Lets Get This Moneyyy
it means "lets go to mars" 👨🚀
I thought its short for LEGITIMATE 😭
@@nicholasnye7318 it's actually Looks good to me ahahha
@@nicholasnye7318 me too mehn! 🤣
ohh i thought i ment "looks good to me"
I'm glad to know literally everyone else in my position is also like this
Clearly when the intern copy and pasted the line into file, they inadvertently changed two tabs to 4 spaces. This didn't show up in the diff because it was set to ignore whitespace changes.
The backend reading this file was poorly constructed, and could only handle tabs here, thus causing the file to fail to be read and the page to go down. Except since this was a style read by the entire website (even though it wasn't used directly elsewhere), it basically caused the entire website to go down.
Moral of the story: Always have a staging ground where changes go to be tested by QA. Don't push directly to live! And DEFINITELY don't allow merges that don't pass CI!
Yeeeaaa, that'll do it. This is exactly how I felt working with tailwind for the first time. I'd spend hours looking over the css wondering where the conflicts in grids were happening or why the text wasn't inline.
Please make more of these, these are so funny!
Thank you, more coming soon!!
This couldn’t be more relatable
Omg the PR part is so REAL LMFAOOO I had to write such big texts for such small code changes 😩😩😩
writing PR descriptions takes forever loool
Just remember that people approving PRs do a lot of them, in addition to their usual duties. So context in the PR is the only thing keeping their day from grinding to a halt!
I've put ten applications in for internships in the last week. Now I'm watching this series to prepare myself for this lol
Good luck :)
Really relatable. I am far away from calling myself a software engineer (still studying and before Uni I havent coded once or did anything with computers besides playing and surfing on the internet)...
But, the more I've "moved" in the tech field the more I unterstood that: Stackoverflow is your friend ;-D
facts 😂😂
That BTR Outro though!! You got a good childhood too I see 🤣
This makes me more anxious to take on software engineering internship hahahaha I LOVE THE GOOGLING OF QUESTIONS IN INCOGNITO MODE THO, TOO RELATABLE
😳😳
If anything, you should probably be less anxious now since you know what to expect. LOL
@@kevinthegreat8400 wait- that- you’re actually right! Perspective changed! Thanks kind sir!
delete history when u close the browser
Your vids are so funny, I haven't LOL'd this hard in a while, beginner programmer in my last semester looking for jobs in coding now and been watching your videos, making me feel a lot better and giving me so many good laughs in the process.
Yea thats LITERALLY me rn - only difference is that the codebase was actualle 3 times bigger and that they didnt accept my pull request lmao
Wait so is nobody gonna comment about the bee movie script at 3:12?
This sounds like me everytime I start at a new job lol.
This happens to me as well, and I've been working on software for more than a decade
I remember three months into my internship when I wasn't writing documentation anymore, I wrote my first big piece of code. It broke production and over 500k requests couldn't log into our platform.
Guy, your content is damn relatable. good job
That's so true!! Even my lecturer had to check how to center text alignment. lol
Why is this exactly my every single day
This was painfully accurate
Started my first software engineering job recently. It's scary how accurate this is.
haha hope it goes well!
@@nicholast Thanks. I'm taking it one day at a time!
@@Hannib4lBarca what's it like
@@letsgog8trs793 I enjoyed it but just jumped ship to another company that made me a better offer and had a better tech stack.
This video thaught me what a Pull request is, thank you!
This is the most accurate capture of software eng that I have ever seen.
I love how he did everything the right way, but in reverse.
Me: can’t do advanced python
Also me: wanted to do a basketball shooting recording app for my a level project
Guess I’m screwed
That sounds like an interesting project, would you like to share what you intend to do?
Bruh I'm watching a stereotype about interns while being a software dev intern. Why do they only give us front end stuff
My guess is it’s less likely to have a huge impact on the site if you make changes (imagine they have you a backend task and you deleted a db table or transferred money to a random user lmaoo)
@@nicholast understandable. Messed with the API today, now we can't login lmao
I think frontend is comparatively easy to pick up rather than the backend as an intern plus I think it's easier to share the impact and the changes you did with the other people as it's easily visible, most of the times.
Because a frontend ticket is likely a single component, on a single spot. A backend issue is likely touches many spots and requires a larger architectural understanding of whatever you're working on.
Also, every software dev that's worked for a few years will have a horror story or 3 about when they blindly trusted a junior and shot themselves in the foot lol
@@1chaplain loooool
1:28 Instead of overcomplicating it, just do Right click and Inspect element, it tells you directly what area of the code is in charge of it. And save yourself an hour :)
I like the whole thing, but the ending, idk. Keep up the good work
As an intern I never destroyed a website,then we got another intern 5 weeks in.
All she had to do is change some text in the footer of a page.
We had to rollback the site it was fucked.
Even my boss didn't know how she could fuck it up so much.
😂
His JIRA having parts of the script to the bee Movie 😂
buzz buzz 🐝
Im interning at Twitch and this is the most relatable video ever lmaooo
Ooh twitch is a cool place to work! Glad you found it relatable!
SDE or for some other position?
@@ujjawal.pandey SDE, its for their summer internship program
@@PedroTechnologies So how was your interview? I mean, if it was problem-solving oreinted then how was it, was it really tough like those of FAANG type? Or it was based on resume shortlisting?
@@PedroTechnologies Btw I just saw your channel. Great stuff man! Subbed👍 keep it up💪
Great channel! Keep doing what you're doing.
This helps me to deal with my anxiety bro, thanks.
My first ever commit when I was intern
During my internship I committed some changes to a file in the development branch instead of creating second branch for me, the moment I pushed the code I received a call in less than a minute telling me that "Did you just committed your code in dev branch?? I told you to make a separate branch and create a PR" hahahahaha it was fun and scarry at the same time
Their fault for letting just any user push.
yea tbh they shouldn't have given you the perms to do that lool
I have had a senior who would directly push into develop. He said that's it waste of time to make new branch and pr since it's going to work 100% anyways 😁
@@satyamsangal6659 The PR is just to create a gateway for commits. That isn't always necessary.
It's their fault for not implementing any security.
haha man i wished someone had told me it's normal to feel like this for your first internship!!
I honestly didn’t even know it was normal until I talked to my friends about it, we all faced the same problems!
@@nicholast Did you for real break something though? This video calmed me down a bit about first days at a real software development job and then the message at the end appeared and I'm lowkey scared again. xD
@@DJFrytek haha luckily i haven't broke anything (yet?)
I wish I got such an "easy" task as my first intern task. I had to add a new input to a profile settings page and write frontend validation for it (phone number). it was sooooo scary lol
same! i appreciate it now though, although it took me a while it gave me confidence
I had to fix a bug I found on the web app as my first ticket lol and that was scary considering I didn’t know anything about the company code at the time.
At 3:11 Goes on to write in the PR - "Here's a part of the script from the Bee movie" lmaoooo 😂🤣🤣
This is so relatable haha it reminds me of one of my first tickets (I also googled what’s a PR lol), you got a new sub :D
lmfao @ the three page-long PR description
gotta be descriptive :)
This company went straight from dev branch to production 👍
4G1L3
its a fast-paced company
lmao still the senior's fault who did the code review!
thats true haha
“git add .”
was so underrated!!!
Great detail!
That moment when your bug fix introduces a bug… I was watching my manager demo our software to PMs, when I instantly recognized a regression that I introduced in a PR earlier that week. Really made me realize the important of internal demos to catch stuff like this, and also testing all cases before checking in my code!
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
Text-align: center 🤣🤣
display: grid;
place-items: center;