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
Caveat: some topics are very deep, and necessitate a lot of time and effort to understand. Ex: you can't teach somebody an entire programming language in just 50 words. So, it's unfair to blame the senior engineer if you are insisting upon a 50-word explanation.
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Replying to @BrianLauber @sarahmei
who's insisting on a 50 word explanation? not the op..
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Replying to @marinakukso @sarahmei
I'm referring to the "junior person". I've observed this on a few occasions, always when the person is already very frustrated. Ex: "Stop explaining why it's a security weakness! You already told me that XYZ protected us from immediate danger! So, why should I change my code?"
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Ah -- just saw how my original post was misleading. Sorry about that! But yeah: meaningful communication becomes very challenging when one party or the other is already very frustrated.
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