As the title states. I’ve been a software developer for a year now and work for a tiny company, where the salary isn’t amazing. I got paid more at Apple Genius Bar, but it wasn’t as challenging.
I still feel like I’m stupid, I’ll rely on the owner lead engineer for help on the more complex problems and because we have a great set of conventions I’ll frequently be going back to old projects to extract the logic from their. Whether that be reading from Excel spreadsheets or the controller flow, as we use GraphQL api for most calls.
Does it just click at some point?
The reality here is simple actually. Try to get another -better- job and, when you succeed, you can consider yourself "ready" because your peers evaluated your skills and they consider you good enough for the job.
Self doubt happens, don't worry. Look to learn your tools, find good teachers and mentors, but don't let it stop your tries for better positions.
It's never too early. If you see an interesting job posting reach out and go thorough the process. At worst you learn a bit about what they were looking for and gain some interview experience. At best you get a job offer. Even if you decide not to take the offer you learn a bit about the positions available to you.
It costs effectively nothing to apply. Just a few hours of your time.
