Comments by "Ton Bong" (@tongobong1) on "What Juniors Developers NEED To Do | Trisha Gee On Junior Developers u0026 Learning On The Job" video.

SOLID is important if job interviewer is a highly experienced software developer. If manager is doing the job interview then looking confident is more important than what you say. LOL!
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@aakarshan4644 the important part is also understanding the wars between different opinions about unit testing and styles, using TDD or not, agile vs waterfall... and stay away from that topics because you never know what are interviewer's preferences. Once a manager on a job interview asked me if I am one of those that like to write unit tests - he clearly hated unit tests. Since technical lead was also present and he clearly liked unit tests I answered very diplomatically that unit tests are sometimes useful but this was not good enough answer for manager that clearly wanted to hear that I don't like unit tests... LOL Beside can you imagine that there are many experienced developers in Europe that are still writing London style unit tests? That they still didn't realized how terrible is to mock out everything that is not a part of the class under test?
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@aakarshan4644 By my experience projects in big companies are even worse than in small to mid companies and I worked on some of the biggest projects in Europe in teams counting more than 100 developers and some code was more than 30 years old.
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My advice to junior developers for a job interview is to be confident if interviewer is confident and to show enthusiasm for the job they are applying. I think this is more important than the current knowledge they have.
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