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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Replying to @alicegoldfuss
i say in 2018 we collectively declare war on these sorts of toxic people
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Replying to @landongn @alicegoldfuss
I'm up for putting more effort into fighting this toxic attitude. It leads to teams where the seniors focus on "protecting ourselves from juniors" rather than "helping to grow engineers".
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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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Counterpoint: bad management sees number of team members as an indicator of productivity, and when juniors are added IN THAT CONTEXT the seniors suffer.
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Yes I agree. You need to balance the team so more experienced devs have enough time to mentor less experienced devs. A 1:1 (or maybe 1:2) ratio of experienced devs to inexperienced devs is about as far as you can push it ime.
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