How to leave the galley and find a normal job?

Question

Career in IT

Hello everyone, let me tell you a little about myself.
I am 23 years old. I am that non-programmer who yesterday studied to be a lawyer, and today is a frontend developer. In web programming (actually, in principle, in programming) for almost 2 years, a year of them is commercial development (I row on different galleys). When I started studying web development (html/css/js), I thought that all my troubles would end exactly when I got a job. I thought I would teach me there, review the code, give slaps on the back of the head and speak properly, well, at least a meeting of like-minded people.
As a result, I’m both on the first gallery and on the second one - I just create some kind of product from shit and sticks - which is sent to production without even checking (it works, so everything is fine). When at interviews I say that the main criterion for me is 'development team, code review' (in my opinion, this is the only way to grow as a developer), then everyone is so surprised, and sometimes they directly say 'well, in principle, we rarely check the code - thereby not we strain programmers'.

I understand that what kind of programmer I am - I attract such employers. But how to change this situation?
I understand JS quite well (I read all the books 'you don't know js'), I have a good understanding of react js , react native (9 months of commercial experience already).
Almost all the companies in which I go through social security are aimed at creating a product, and they absolutely do not care about the quality of this product. At the first galley, a jun came who proved to me that js is a multi-threaded language, so the maximum that he could do was to scratch his tongue with the authorities and you *get what a great programmer he is, so a month later he became the lead of the js development team (me and another developer )..
What am I doing wrong? Maybe I have not the right approach or view of it all? How to find a normal company in which it will be possible to develop?

Answer 1

Of course, 9 months of commercial experience is not enough, but you still need to try to look for a normal job with normal processes. Most likely there will be a development team with a lead and seniors. Testers. And most likely it will be a fairly large company or a mature product, where they have already come to the conclusion that saving on quality leads to unnecessary spending on maintenance and modernization. And where possible, even applied in the case of Scrum. Perhaps it will even be remote since the coronavirus contributed to its spread. Most likely it will be where there is a large and complex front-end, the quality of which is directly reflected in the company's income.
If you can’t find it, you need to refine the experience. Develop. Get the necessary experience in pet projects (for example, make a high-quality todo covered with tests). And as you gain experience, try again.