My first months as a web developer

At the start of 2016, I started on my first job as a web developer at Inspire. A couple of months before this I had finished an intense developer’s boot camp program. If you want to know what that was like you can read the blog of a fellow student here.

Not very long before I started that program I didn’t even know what a class or an object was in programming, and now I’m working on big and complex web applications that are used by thousands of people. If you are interested in what it’s like to switch a career to become a developer, you can read my first Medium post: ‘When athletes become developers’, but in this post, I partially zoom in to my personal experience as a starting web developer and even give some advice for new developers who are looking for a nice company to write code for.

I have to add that this may not only be interesting for new developers, but also for employers who are curious about what they can do to successfully add juniors to their team.

The company

The experience of working as a developer for the first time is of course impacted a lot by the type of company you work for. To give a quick summary, the company builds software for clients with different backgrounds, but most companies or organizations that have social relevance and are focused on improving people’s lives such as…