Question time! What was your first programming job or internship experience like? What I mean is, were you eased in or was it baptism by fire?

Mine is currently baptism by fire, coffee, and no sleep

I was 2 weeks at "1&1", a German but meanwhile international hoster. Problem was I had no chance to choose a department so I had to go to BusinessIntelligence. Only economic computer scientist and not one softwareEngineering exercise 😥

Babtism by gentle fire. But we were also forbidden to work outside of work hours. Without any experience we had to do scrum and agile with teams in Kenya. This was pretty difficult sometimes. But the seniors there also gave presentations on how to do angular, sass and other needed skills. About 10% has been hired afterwards

For fucks sake it was the worst, i imagine hell to be somewhat of a milder version of that

I worked for the government. Wasn't so bad, but there was a lot of info to absorb. And the codebase was terrible. And the pay was shit. And the program management didn't like us due to a history of underperformance. Learned a lot though.

Fire definately. 16 year old me agreed to join to slice psd files into html templates. I did basic php scripts before so someone asked me to integrate their new breadcrumbs module.... custom framework... no docs.... whyyy?

Eased in. Really slowly. Like too slow. I only actually worked for a third of my internship because the program I was supposed to be upgrading for them was breaking prod the day before I started.