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We work in a bubble where everyone “knows” what they are talking about, but in reality no-one knows what they are talking about. The very few gems who deeply know what they are doing are few, not every company has one. Personally I don’t know what I’m doing either (sometimes).
Personally I feel it’s close-minded to claim you can’t be a senior if you can’t explain yourself to a beginner. Some people have troubles expressing themselves by default. Pretty disheartening for people with bad social skills to see they will never be a “real senior”.
There’s just a spectrum of people and they might all be seniors and they will all learn from each other either way. Socially awkward or not, but being able to explain yourself is whole another skillset someone can bring to the table VS the raw knowledge.
Purposely trying to overwhelm a junior developer, just to show-off how much you know is a douchebag move though. Those people are just afraid of a possible knowledge gap, while acknowledging that you don’t know x as a senior dev doesn’t make you worth less, it makes you human.
Fwiw I've had mentors at work who were so socially awkward they had to take regular leave time for panic attacks. I don't think having bad social skills precludes being a good mentor.
There are other ways to explain than in-person. I’ve worked with senior devs who preferred to write things down, some who liked slack convos, some who liked drawing diagrams, & one who maintained an amazing test suite that served as executable docs. But SOMEHOW, they must teach.
Yeah. No one would characterize me as highly socially proficient, and most of the mentoring I have done was over DM or slack. Same for the mentoring I've received.
re: "Some people have troubles expressing themselves by default." better communication can be learned! i promise :}
True, I never stated otherwise.
Connecting with other people is a skill, like any other. It comes with learning and practice, and unlike a lot of tech skills, it retains its value forever. I was awful at it when I started, and much less awful now.
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