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You walk into that interview all confident, ready to negotiate boundaries and work-life balance. They ask "Can you work under pressure?" and you're like "Yes, of course!" thinking it's just some tight deadlines here and there. Fast forward three months and you look like you've survived a zombie apocalypse after sprint planning meetings that should've been emails, production incidents at 3 AM, and that one legacy codebase nobody documented because the previous dev "had to leave urgently."
The transformation from fresh-faced optimist to battle-scarred veteran happens faster than a memory leak in a recursive function. Turns out "working under pressure" meant simultaneously debugging a race condition, explaining to management why the feature can't be done in 2 days, and fixing that critical bug in prod while your code is still being reviewed. Welcome to software development, where the pressure doesn't build character—it builds trauma responses.
