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There are a lot of down to Earth devs, but there's also some... how do I say this delicately? ... Assholes. These people grew up knowing they were smarter than
by JustSomeNobody 11y ago
There are a lot of down to Earth devs, but there's also some... how do I say this delicately? ... Assholes. These people grew up knowing they were smarter than average, but didn't learn to talk to an average. They always have to be the smartest person in the room. This person's sentences start with "Well, technically..." more often than not because you're dumber than they are.
A lot of us go through a period, when we're young, where we start correcting people because, well, we're smart and they're wrong. Most of us get over it and actually learn how to talk to an average (being able to accept when they are right and being able to STFU when they are wrong or explaining it delicately if it's actually something important). Mostly because we learn that an average hates to be corrected all the time. But also because conversations can be fun if you just don't worry about whether what people are saying is "technically" correct or not.
- quantum_nerd 11y agoI agree that there's definitely a lot of down to Earth Devs and they are probably some of the reasons why I didn't give up on this career(even though I didn't fit in nobody's box and felt alienated from everyone since Freshman year of college), but booooy are there so many holier-than-thou "I went to CalFord or StanTech so I am a god!!" whose last iota of humility was probably when they were in middle school. It almost feels adversarial sometimes when going through tech interviews(as if the process of preparing for them wasn't draining enough). Fortunately, there's a glimmer of hope most smarter-than-average devs are actually good people and are willing and nice enough to help when asked. It just doesn't seem like so when I am doing phone screens or talking to some people at insert-programming-language meetup.