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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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).
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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