Whatever was needed to solve the problem at the time. Some experiments along the way but it doesn’t feel like time well spent as soon as you identify that most of the time it’s the same sort of problems that are being addressed just with different aesthetic choices.

All we are doing is transforming information into other information so as long as you grasp the fundamentals you should be able to apply them to every language or framework, so I would not get hung up on learning a bunch of different ones. Only 6 years in though so I could be wrong.

The job of HR is to protect the company, not the employees independent of it.
Is this case, it sounds like HR was also protecting the company with a side effect being that it benefits you as well.

Have you thought about saying “No”

It’s useful, you should try it.

It’s so easy and simple though, what could possibly be the problem?

What landed me my job was definitely a combination of things, but what helped me in the interview was researching datastructures, making sure that I could say something about them and situational use, it's also great to have made a project that you are really passionate about and to be able to share you're excitement about it and the challenges you had to overcome.

Think about what you would like to learn, not just what you can do now and express that to the interviewer.

Wordpress has tons of these, they all suck.

So basically you're asking companies to loose money...

The fact is and will always be (unless we scrap the free market idea, if we're feeling murderous) that it is literally always our fault.

How? :)

I agree, unless it's web. In that case frontend can make up it's mind already or stop using dumb frameworks where you need to study it to make something you already knew how to make in the first place. And that whole "it saves time thing". Yes it saves time for YOU because you have spent quite a long time getting to grips with the ridiculous naming conventions and structure...

Depends. I would say yes if you're doing something for the 20th + time..

I mean, learning a second programming language isn't that hard but if you only have php experience I would say the most beneficial would some sort of general programming language like cs, python or c++. In the end it's all the same.

I spent many years on this, trying to tell everyone... This was futile.

Honestly that's what I thought before my boss asked us to make docs because pretty much all investors they talked to asked about it as a priority.

@Codex404 So what, all physical ? No shared doc for external API or visual representation of core systems ?

@irene preach!

I wish we were programming at a lower level honestly, nobody knows what's actually going on in a computer anymore...

Pretty much the same happened to me xD

Makes you faster at typing, but that's not really the hard part of programming in terms of meeting deadlines anyway... Typing is literally the part that takes the least amount of dev time I feel like.