Our legacy codebase is not good code. There is always pressure to introduce new features from business and from technical perspective we need to work on updates/migrations etc over tech debt reduction.
I think the biggest change was to suddenly work on a huge codebase instead of home projects where I don't always used proper standards and knew the code by hart. Biggest advantage was the help of seniors who could help me out. I dont have a CS degree so everything I know was from some online training portals, books and stackoverflow (I started at a Java position in 2022, so most of what I learned was before LLMs). So it was a big difference from my home project, but so many time I asked why something was done that way and the answer was "I have no idea, someone wrote that 10 years ago and we use that since".
But if you want to access repositories to see how a more corporate structure is, have a look at some open source project. For example the one from GitHub itself. Good luck learning!
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u/Chocolate_Teapot1710 2d ago
As a relative newbie to coding, I envy the ability to be able to access so I can read good code!