This is a coding noob’s chronicle, volume V. (Another year of keeping this ritual, this is turning a marathon now. Here are volume I, volume II, volume III, and volume IV FYI).
2022 is a harvesting year, both career-wise and spirituality-wise. In a way, it felt like a milestone year where I gained more peace with who I am and where I am.
Career
After I got the promotion to senior at the beginning of this year, the problematic company structure and various people’s leave made me feel somehow boiling inside. I started accepting interview invitations from other companies, and as a go-getter, once I started interviewing, the job change wasn’t very far. I ended up joining a company that I wanted to join at the very beginning of my career, that I was even admiring.
It was a very new project, but not 100% greenfield because we are building our brand new project within an internal framework. For me, that was also a new experience. That was the first time in my life that I was not working with some legacy code, and it requires a very different mindset. Instead of improving code quality and scalability, the challenge was more lying in decomposing the project, learning about the users and what we were building, planning the project, and estimating the effort. It demanded a product and project management skillset. I was very much challenged, but I survived without scratching my head off. I see it as a big win.
Also, this is a pretty large company compared to the companies I’ve worked for before — a few thousand employees globally. Because of the size, usually, a project involves various teams, and the coordination was surprisingly hard.
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Edit in Jan 1st 2024: Obviously I didn’t manage to finish this chronicle, but just for the linear archive, I’ll still keep it as it is.
