They didn't put that in your position desription?

@Schlarman So, a couple things. First of all, don't get discouraged about not getting hired. Contribute to whatever open source projects you can, answer stack overflow questions, and/or write pens on code pen. Then, offer whatever help you can to the kind of place you want to work. Even if that means cleaning or delivering furniture or whatever. Let the company know that you love creating websites. Offer to do it in your spare time or to be paid on completion. Proving yourself before they front some cash will help establish trust up front, you're accepting the risk rather than the business. Once you've done that and you've done done work for the first company, you've got a solid reference and real world experience under your belt. Hope this helps, and good luck!

I think for a front end developer it's not incredibly important, though it is helpful. Granted, I think a lot of people put designers in to the "front end developer" category. Just a difference of semantics. I think that the more CSS you learn the better off you'll be but it's not like you'll be totally lost if you don't know all the ins and outs. There's also a difference in doing template development and design. You must know/master CSS for either of those.

This sounds awful. I hope I never have to deal with something like this. Best of luck! You could always tell them that the new system won't allow it!

@wolfium what's (almost) funny about this is that I've made suggestions to him (and so have others on the team). He tells us why it's so terrible to do it that way and then a few months later he comes back either having done that in some bit of code he was working on or suggesting we try it. :facepalm:

@ClemFrieckie Yeah, there have already been at least a few from the team that have left because of him.

@VirtualProtect Yeah, he has the mentality that he doesn't write bugs. He may have received bad data or bad requirements, but he doesn't ever write bad code. :eyeroll:

@jsframework9000 I would usually agree, but I'm not 100% sure that's true in this case. Maybe it is!

I haven't been doing this nearly as long as a lot of people. Just remember that when you were first learning anything, it probably wasn't very good. It takes a while to get good at something and a really long time to master something. Hang in there and just keep at it. Read Michael Jordan's story for some inspiration. The best way to get better at something is to show up everyday and work at it.

@aram Check out http://www.greaterup.com/ . I use it every day and it makes a world of difference.