How to succeed in your first software developer job

After some hectic rounds of interviews, you have finally landed in your first software developer job. What’s next?

It’s highly unlikely, that you will start by developing some real-time projects from scratch right away, except, if you have joined as an experienced programmer. It is the duty of a Project Manager to groom the budding developer, by assigning small tasks at a time and gradually moving to bigger scale. The objective is to enable the developer to have an idea about the job culture and its environment, and have a feel of what projects really are and what they are meant to do, and equip them with the skills and knowledge required to work on the job. You will be initially assigned with a mini-project to begin with, such as developing new feature for a product with CRUD functionality, form validations, implement search functionality, design UI screens etc., You are supposed to do the tasks assigned in the right earnest and complete the project within a stipulated time, without consulting your team mates. Your performance will be evaluated after each task is completed.

Based on your performance, you will be moved to the next level, and assigned higher level tasks. Before getting into real-time-projects, you will be provided with codebases used in real-time projects, which you are required to learn, the whole suite of development tools to set-up, and learning the coding style your team uses. Finally, after completing all the tasks required to jump start into a real time project, you will be inducted into a team along with other developers with a senior developer to assist you, to work on full-fledged projects. Since it is your first project, your role basically is to learn and understand the intricacies of developing a real-time project, and develop the necessary skills and knowledge associated with it, coordinate with other team members (ie., develop soft skills), attend daily group meetings, identify and understand the tasks to be done, consult your team mates for doubts if any, and complete the tasks in time and commit the changes on Git. When the project is completed successfully, the whole team gets the credit (which includes you because it involved your contribution also). If you have made it this far… Congratulations!!! You have succeeded in your first software developer job..

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