I've been a junior developer for almost 2 years now at a fairly large company. At my current position, there hasn't been a single task thrown at me that I have not been able to complete with ease. I've worked with multiple languages and technologies that I was not familiar with at all when I started. I tend to figure them out pretty quickly and get on with the task at hand. I've built a bunch of side projects (not all of them completed) and have put them on Github per this article's suggestion.
Having said that, I get paid very little and am generally bored with the work I'm doing now so I'm looking for a new opportunity. I do very well on phone interviews but I'm absolutely terrible at onsite interviews that involve any white board algorithm problems, algorithm optimization questions, etc. This is a combination of low self esteem/intimidation I feel during these interviews. I've done maybe 3 or 4 of these and they've all gone terribly. It's come to the point where I have stopped applying for positions that interest me and that I feel that I would be a great fit for because I know the style of interview that I'll be facing. I've determined that I either need to come up with an idea of my own that I can turn into a steady income or that I need to leave this field and find something else to do.
What do you guys think? Am I just a terrible developer or is it just a matter of practice? Like someone else mentioned above, I try to sit down and practice but get distracted by the fact that I could be building something interesting.
Having said that, I get paid very little and am generally bored with the work I'm doing now so I'm looking for a new opportunity. I do very well on phone interviews but I'm absolutely terrible at onsite interviews that involve any white board algorithm problems, algorithm optimization questions, etc. This is a combination of low self esteem/intimidation I feel during these interviews. I've done maybe 3 or 4 of these and they've all gone terribly. It's come to the point where I have stopped applying for positions that interest me and that I feel that I would be a great fit for because I know the style of interview that I'll be facing. I've determined that I either need to come up with an idea of my own that I can turn into a steady income or that I need to leave this field and find something else to do.
What do you guys think? Am I just a terrible developer or is it just a matter of practice? Like someone else mentioned above, I try to sit down and practice but get distracted by the fact that I could be building something interesting.