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What are your top 3 frustrations as a Developer?

Vera Tiago on April 13, 2022

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Manuel Fernandez

What grinds my gears mostly is the fact that I can read all the documentation I want, build all the to-do lists and blog projects as I want, but I still won't be prepared for real client projects.

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Kirill Shestakov

You'll never be fully prepared for what you're asked to do. That's the point of learning and growing. Muscle only grows because the body repairs muscle fiber damaged through exercise. And so you will only grow as a dev when facing and resolving issues you aren't prepared for. Whether it is difficult or not depends on how you approach the learning process: you can approach it with the fear of the unknown, or you can approach it with excitement for learning and discovering new things. One of these approaches will make it much easier, smoother and much more pleasant to do programming and keep improving at it.

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Vera Tiago

Yea! I feel you. Software Development is challenging. There’s just so much to learn, and there’s so much available (libraries, programming languages, etc.) And if that isn’t enough, things are constantly changing.

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AjeaS

Same here, but I'm starting to realize having a proper mindset does go a long way.

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Konrad Stącel

As a frontend developer:

  1. I hate working with backend developers. Usually, they are preparing backend without consulting with frontend, and usually it is not fully working(or at all), then when you ask them to fix something it takes a lot of time.
  2. Badly described tasks
  3. Tough deadlines
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Bobby Plunkett • Edited
  1. Users
  2. Users breaking my app
  3. Users describing their problems

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Though while users can be annoying, honestly, the most annoying parts for me are debugging hard to find errors (such as ghost 500 errors), AWS (just as a whole, they make my life hard), and having to handle DevOps tasks (I don't like CICD pipelines)

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Renan "Firehawk" Lazarotto

1 - Dealing with users
2 - the hell-fire filled gap between demo code and real-world code
3 - the fact that past people that worked on projects I now have to work had absolutely no care about data integrity

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DanK1368

I am currently in the process of switching careers and learning some front-end technologies. Although I wouldn't consider myself to be a developer just yet since I am just starting out, I do realize more than ever, how fast technology is changing/ evolving.
I think that is a big challenge for someone just learning, keeping pace with it. By the time you get comfortable with certain concepts, updates are made and it's done in a different way. For a seasoned developer I think it may not be too much of a hurdle, but for beginners I think it can lead to some frustrations.

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Gabriel Linassi • Edited

I feel a bit frustrated I don't find a company that pays me $60K (remotely). I have 3 years of experience working as a front-end SWE and my highest compensation monthly was $3,300.00/monthly (~40K) however the average for my experience is around 60K.

I try my best to be always up-to-date with the tooling I need to perform my job (mainly React and libs of the react ecosystem), practice english on a daily basis to make sure I can communicate properly and most recently started to take leetcode problems on a weekly basis to ace the coding interview.

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taijidude
  1. having way to much different projects that i need to cover
  2. just putting out fires with no time to really improve things. (Management says the customer doesn't pays for improvements)
  3. badly documented legacy projects
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Pontakorn Paesaeng
  1. I want to do something but I don't know what to do. For example, I want to do some projects but I don't know which project to do.
  2. I get burnout easily.
  3. I don't have knowledge to make anything useful even for a side project.
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Casey Webb
  1. Timezones (and DST)
  2. Meetings
  3. Legacy support, usually surrounding Microsoft (IE, Sharepoint, etc.)
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Vera Tiago • Edited

So, Users are definitely a common pain point...

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Andrew Baisden
  1. Deadlines are not accurate
  2. The client has unrealistic expectations
  3. Sometimes solving bugs can take more than a few days to fix
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Zachary Ferguson

1 - Poor to no documentation on a project/repository.

The amount of time I've wasted trying to decipher a script written by someone no longer with the company is ridiculous, half the time I ended up rewriting the script because it's faster to rebuild it from the ground up

2 - Too many dang MEETINGS!

This meeting could have been an email.

3 - A losing battle trying to maintain untested and unstructured code

Have to change this endpoint url? Let me jump between 15 different files all thrown into the root directory and make sure it's updated everywhere. Someday I'll get everyone on the same page, haha

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Kirill Shestakov

I feel ya on the meetings. On one hand I feel like they're needed, on the other hand, there is so many of them that on some days I can't get much work done at all.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Nobody ever stops after writing that 20% of the code that does 80% of what you need. They always have to complete their work by adding another four times as much code just to squeeze out that last remaining bit of functionality. The result: Everything is always bloated.

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Lime • Edited
  1. Working with UI/UX designers who doesn't know how to code or at least the basic understanding of it (they might sometimes design something that's very difficult or impossible to translate into code)
  2. Working with UI/UX designers who loves fancy UI & animations
  3. Constant design/feature changes
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Wojtek Kalka • Edited

That 95% of tutorials and example code out there has really low quality, outdated, badly coded and no one points to it to be afraid of negative comments, reviews etc ...

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AjeaS

A new shiny thing comes along, I get instantly distracted...now I'm lost on that bandwagon.

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Will Holmes

Meetings with no agenda.

Meetings scheduled for longer than necessary.

Meetings.

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Dominykas Bartkus
  1. Google Cloud Documentation
  2. Google Cloud
  3. Black box libraries
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Jaylen

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