5 Common Traps Junior Developers Fall Into (And How To Avoid Them)
Across the ~4 months Rahul Pandey and I have been building our Tech Career Growth Community, we have directly interacted with hundreds of junior developers. Something I deeply believe in and have shared several times with the community is that time is the only resource that truly matters. In today’s extremely chaotic landscape, the world is filled to the brim with distractions and ineffective time sinks. Unfortunately, I see a lot of developers fall into these traps, especially junior ones both inside and outside of our community. In this article, I will cover 5 traps that junior developers in particular often fall into, why they’re actually traps instead of opportunities, and how to get out of them.
Tutorial Hell
There are so many amazing tutorials nowadays, and that’s a huge net good for the community - The tutorial landscape has exponentially improved compared to 10 years ago, making the software world far more accessible. However, the problem with tutorials is that a lot of developers don’t realize that they’re merely a starting off point, not a path towards becoming a senior engineer or even a junior engineer capable of landing a full-time position.
Tutorials should only be used to build a basic understanding of whatever language/framework you are working with and…
