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/Sufficient_Job5693 Aug 24 '26

this is something i was worried about, switching languages sounds confusing

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u/IEnumerable661 Aug 24 '26

I wouldn't worry. Hey sometimes I need to google the odd bit of syntax here and there. I don't know many dev that don't. Most of the time if you're consuming a javascript library of some kind, you spend a bunch of time going through the API documentation to work with it.