Got hired for a junior React role, couldn’t keep up. How do I avoid this mismatch again? I’m a recent CS grad and I’m trying to make sense of a mismatch I ran into with my first dev job. I made that recent post about pivoting. For the interview, I prepped hard the night before—reviewed React fundamentals and went over my projects (mainly a university chat app with profiles + group chat). I did well in the interview and got the offer. The job itself ended up being very different from what I expected. After onboarding, I was asked to build exercises/features with animations and UI behavior that were more complex than anything I’d done before. A few weeks in, I was told the expectation was \~3–4 completed tasks per day. I was averaging closer to 1–2, even while pushing very hard. There also wasn’t much support once the work shifted more into React-heavy tasks, so I was mostly figuring things out on my own. That combination (speed + complexity + limited guidance) is where I struggled.…