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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)


Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.

While working on it didn’t make me hate legacy projects any less, it did help me get a deeper understanding of the processes and practices we use today. Writing clean code and automated tests Participating in pull requests and tasks reviews App is in production within the same day of merging into the master branch Agile is well adopted Why couldn’t we, as developers, manage the whole feature from start to production instead of opening tickets and waiting for other teams before we could close our task?

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