“I could rewrite this in a week!”

~ junior dev, 3 months ago

Want some spaghetti boy? Its actually just one really long spaghetti, we call it proceduroni solo.

Is the title a Terry Davis reference?

Dealing with this now at work. Got a dev whose time in the industry should make him a senior dev but he gives off massive junior vibes.

• The need to change everything he touches

• Wanting to write clever code over straightforward code

• Everything “needs” a refactor

• Just deprecates things when he doesn’t want to learn them and writes a new implementation without updating old code

• Thinks he knows best while not understanding huge swaths of the codebase

• Everything he can’t understand in <5 min is stupid and wrong

If he was less competent (when kept in a box and closely monitored) I’d be pushing even harder to get rid of him.

Me when the C code has std's and children to slay