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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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One more thing: it indeed takes two to communicate! But when there’s a power imbalance present - such as always accompanies an experience gap - the onus is on higher-power person to make sure they’re adapting to their partner.
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I will 80% agree with this. Teaching is a distinct skill, separate from doing. You can be really good at doing but lousy at explaining/teaching. The blacksmithing mentor at my forge, for instance. :-/ It's a skill one should develop, but it's not the same skill.
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Absolutely. My contention, however, is that you’re not a _senior_ developer unless you have that skill.
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Being able to explain decisions is, in fact, precisely what distinguishes a senior engineer from a mid-level one.
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Then we ought to be sending would-be seniors to education classes, too, not just technical conferences. :-)
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Hard agree
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Violent agreement!
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Pssst. Try answer some questions on StackOverflow. Then we'll see.
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you are a national treasure
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pro tip #4397 : avoid working with people who think their coworkers deserve to get blasted for anything.
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