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 …
Having said that: it applies to the engineer just being unable to explain stuff so that someone not as deep in the field understand. It does not apply to being a pig. There's a difference between "sorry I don't know how to tell this" and "you will never understand, loser".