Had a senior dev laugh at my code last Tuesday during a code review

I was showing a feature I built for tracking user sessions and he pointed out a dumb loop nesting error I'd overlooked. Has anyone else had a moment like that where you felt totally out of your depth in a team setting?

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susan_wells5h ago

Three weeks into my first real job, I spent a whole afternoon optimizing a database query only to realize I'd joined the same table to itself three times. My senior just stared at my screen for like ten seconds, then said "well, that's one way to do it" and walked away. Took me another hour to figure out what was wrong, but honestly those moments taught me way more than any tutorial ever did. Now I'm the one who gets to quietly point out when the new guy's loop goes infinite, which feels like revenge but in a nice way.