To the junior engineers who follow me: NO, most senior engineers DO NOT consider you a burden or an inevitable fuck-up. They are happy to have you on their team and are excited to teach you.
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We can all learn new stuff from each other at any seniority level, perhaps the amounts may differ, that's all.
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I learn a helluva lot from less experienced devs every day. Software engineering is not a single axis of improvement.
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watching the spark of insight on the face of a less experienced person learning something new is one of the greatest things you can experience 'at work'. I hope everyone learns to appreciate it.
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Explaining something to someone asking the questions from inexperience is also a good way to challenge your existing view, or relearn/refresh. Certainly not a negative or unproductive thing.
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Quite often the allegedly "junior" developer knows things the senior dev doesn't. "Oh that's easy let me show you" quite often doesn't pan out because of some context the senior dev didn't have but the junior dev knew in their bones.
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A really good example of this is the number of "senior" devs at big companies who have very little mental model of how the normal github workflow works. While brand new devs know very sophisticated workflow concepts simply because they were exposed to it.
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The normal reaction from senior devs is "those kids are just reacting to the hype train" which can cost years of not upgrading companies to more standard, more robust workflows than they're used to. This is not a knock on senior devs. Just showing that knowledge flows both ways.
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Have purposefully standardised a lot of our flow for this reason (easier onboarding, self documenting the builds). Docker compose up and you're good to go. When you're ready look at the yaml to see what's happening. No institutional knowledge requirements.
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How would you have rephrased the question in a way that could arrive at the same conclusion? Just curious.
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Which question? Which conclusion?
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My mistake, please disregard. Thanks.
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Here here. Every time I've had to work with someone like this, this sort of attitude and outlook is out of self preservation. These people are cancer to team morale and usually have some kind of organizational lock in that allows it. _that_ is what should get destroyed.
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