As the title states. I’ve been a software developer for a year now and work for a tiny company, where the salary isn’t amazing. I got paid more at Apple Genius Bar, but it wasn’t as challenging.
I still feel like I’m stupid, I’ll rely on the owner lead engineer for help on the more complex problems and because we have a great set of conventions I’ll frequently be going back to old projects to extract the logic from their. Whether that be reading from Excel spreadsheets or the controller flow, as we use GraphQL api for most calls.
Does it just click at some point?
One year is nothing.
Learn as much as you can from the people around you at your current position.
Find a new technology or existing one you want to improve/learn and create a project out of it that you can do at home.
Look for ways to improve your productivity.
Become a SME.
One day you will own a project, helping the new guy and be the person people come to if they have questions.
Put in the time. You’ll find your way.