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by winkelwagen 2383 days ago
You only get better with more coding experience. Try to learn from your mistakes. Most important, you are not your code. Don’t take it personal.

Have you talked about this with colleges? It could be that they don’t see it the same way as you. And they are happy to work with you.

I think most companies are terrible at doing code reviews and focus way to much in the wrong thing. You, as a team should create value for the company, not talk about the cutting your slightly to long method up again and again.

For me this code review video really opens my eyes:

https://youtu.be/a9_0UUUNt-Y

1 comments

While I think coding experience matters, I've seen a lot of people with years of experience that never worked in environments favouring quality, who write functioning but very ugly code.

What is 100% true, imo, is that you get better with experience if you are exposed to good practice . This can come from reading other people's code, getting reviews of yours, but also reading books about design or videos or talks...

Just coding alone will help but won't be enough, again, imho.

What I've found over 15 years is that 'good practice' various from place to place. All I'm really doing each new job is learning the local religion.