Starting Cypress Automation from Zero: My First Week, Frustration, and a Fresh Beginning
When Reality Hits, Confidence Breaks, and Learning Tr uly Begins When Reality Hits at Work So this happened recently. I joined work with a quiet confidence. Not arrogance — just that calm feeling you get when you’ve already put in effort before. I told myself: “Okay, I know Selenium. I know Python. I’ve written automation scripts. This shouldn’t be a big problem.” I genuinely believed automation would be the least stressful part of the job. And then… reality hit. They don’t use Selenium. They use Cypress . And on top of that? Jenkins CLI Virtual Machine access VPN-based internal systems Terminal-heavy workflows At that exact moment, my brain had only one honest response: “Bro… we are cooked.” The Shock Nobody Prepares You For Here’s the thing nobody tells you in college, courses, or YouTube tutorials: Knowing a tool ≠ Being ready for a real production environment. At work, tools are: interconnected locked behind access dependent on infrastructure built on systems you’ve never touched ...
