Earlier today I assigned a Jr. Programmer to look at what happened to a table in our test environment that exploded from 50MB in size to just under 5GB in this one table. The assignment was to look at ...

Who reviews the senior staff's code? It's not always straightforward. An important part of the job of a senior engineer is to mentor more junior (less experienced) engineers, no matter their ...

What differentiates junior and senior programmers, beside years of experience? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

In 2004, a young Rui Manuel Monteiro Casais joined Norwegian MMO developer Funcom as junior programmer. Ten years later, he was running the company (and still does). Few complete such a journey - not ...