> The open question does not always work. I'd say it never works, even. IMO whether it works varies a lot by the employee's experience level. For a long time

> The open question does not always work. I'd say it never works, even. IMO whether it works varies a lot by the employee's experience level. For a long time I tried to help junior engineers in the same way I would want to be helped (minimally, open ended, high focus on code quality), then got frustrated when the results weren't what I expected. Catering your message to the audience is one of the best pieces of management advice I've received. I'm not actually a manager, but as a senior dev, similar situations arise in code reviews.