| Every company structures a codebase differently. So it’s best to be open. I have worked at many places where speed vs quality didn’t come up. Also it depends on the constraints. A HFT company is much more worried about getting cache hits whereas a big tech company seems more concerned about a big n. Good vs bad observability: well you better know your statistics well, otherwise you lull yourself into a false sense of security. Not my strongest area tbh. I haven’t worked at a company where post mortems are needed. Ambiguity: there is a lot of ambiguity at uni as well. So you should have had the practice, especially working in groups of students. > It requires accurate and constant self reflection Skills I sharpened at university by studying psychology. Do you know how big the mind fuck was to grok the reproducibility crisis while being a 3rd year student in that program (5th year student overall)? I had to re-examine my whole degree. I also had courses where self-reflection was a weekly part of the course. And I took that seriously. > whereas learning is relational I consider it a mode. Try mathacademy.com it will teach you the “shut up and calculate” version of math really well, and there is nothing relational about (since it’s an app). I also had courses that were about computer and network security in C and assembly. In it, I self-taught vim, assembly, C and git. The self-teaching was partially the point. One thing I have learned from university is that what many people see as good practices is more akin to a culture rather than an actual good practice, because the actual empirical work in figuring out what works hasn’t been done. And I find what you say to strongly fit a particular culture of software engineering. But there are many forms. For example, in the Smalltalk/Pharo community it is recommended to extend the base classes to your liking. Whereas in other languages they look at you with horror. Back in the day (2012) Airdrop was what people used and didn’t want to use git, and these people have programmed for decades (I disagree with that one personally, just showing the culture). |