@Tsaukpaetra said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
Still have not written a test in my life.
@blakeyrat said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
Plenty of US companies don't use unit testing or dependency management tools.
AKA sign of a company
@Ascendant said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
I am fantasising that American software engineers know all the frameworks' config by heart
HELL NO. That's what the docs are for
and are an expert in algorithms and design patterns.
Maybe if you're working in a core group at one of the Big 4 or working in a specialized field, e.g. High Frequency Trading, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence for algorithms. I would expect that a developer had a good working knowledge of these though. And I'd expect I'd be able to talk about the common Gang of Four patterns (Decorator, Builder, Factory, Facade, Adapter, Composite, etc.)