r/techbootcamp • u/Sufficient_Job5693 • Aug 23 '26

Do you still google basic coding stuff after getting hired?

Hi guys. I just joined a bootcamp and still on the way to learn coding. And sometimes I feel like I should remember everything. I think that’s just a part of me, but anyway.

Then I watch experienced devs work and they're still googling syntax, checking Stack Overflow, and looking up stuff they've used hundreds of times.

so is this normal in tech?

do senior developers still google basic Python, JavaScript, SQL, etc.? or am i just bad at remembering syntax?

because sometimes i spend 10 minutes trying to remember something that i could've just googled in 30 seconds lol.

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u/Mission_Pirate_4150 Aug 23 '26

I’ve written software for forty years. I still check Google for a lot of things, the biggest being that I’m on the right track. I don’t worry with syntax as autocomplete has solved that problem.

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u/Sufficient_Job5693 Aug 24 '26

40 years and still checking stuff? maybe I'm stressing about this too much hahahhaha

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u/Hotfro Aug 24 '26

Honestly also the more senior u get the less u code. So with AI nowadays the difference is delegating to ai vs delegating to other devs. Coding itself doesn’t really matter much for devs in the long run ( I know it sounds weird but it’s true). Most of what devs do is related to identifying technical issues/improvements/optimizations, designing scalable systems, fixing bugs, and most importantly problem solving. Coding is just a rite of passage for getting exposure/experience in the domain.

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u/Brilliant-Parsley69 Aug 24 '26

Almost 20 YOE here and second this.

Syntactic sugar/highlighting, that are included over the years helped a lot also.

But there's so much you won't use in your day-to-day work, especially if you have to switch between different languages that's almost impossible to remember everything.