1,000,000% this. If a senior engineer can’t explain it to you in a way you understand - even if you are a lot less experienced - that’s THEIR deficiency. Not yours. When this happens, it means THEY actually don’t understand it well enough.https://twitter.com/noahsussman/status/1170870234066165760 …
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Replying to @sarahmei
Ehhhhhhhh.....should a senior be able to mentor juniors? Yeah. Like that's your job. I twitched because I'm very good at what I do but have a horrible time explaining things to nontechnical business people. They always want me to teach them CS in 5 minutes or less.
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Replying to @solonaarmstrong @sarahmei
See that's where I raised my eyebrow. I think the assumption here is this is eng to eng communication. But in my role as a senior, I frequently have to interface with C level folks that think I'm a magical wizard that performs voodoo. Very hard to talk to these people.
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still, *you're* the one with the knowledge, not them. think of how much easier your job would be if you were able to meet them on their level? in my experience, it mostly involves putting in effort to understand where they're at and use terms, analogies, etc., to help understand.
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When you're on a client call with a CEO that is more interested in hearing himself talk than listening to why his systems are a train wreck, then there is no opportunity to meet them on any level.
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