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Junior devs should also remember that whilst they might be trying to be kind, sometimes the support person you are trying to instruct probably knows more than y
by chris_wot 10y ago
Junior devs should also remember that whilst they might be trying to be kind, sometimes the support person you are trying to instruct probably knows more than you do.
I was a bit bemused when a young guy who had just gone into devops and sysadmin gave me a mini lecture on the importance of open source and contributing to it if you have the skills, and that I really should give it a go one day, because open content is amazing.
I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd gotten into a few of the LibreOffice release notes for work I'd done on the project. Nor did I feel like telling him I'd made significant contributions to Wikipedia. I think I sort of weakly smiled and tried to change the subject.
- edc117 10y agoJuniors in particular are guilty of this, I've found - spending the last few years solving problems, they often come into the real world looking at most problems as 'simple' or 'a waste of time', and tend to be dismissive of non-programmers or domain experts. Some young people can also be surprisingly arrogant. College tends to be a very different experience from the working world. Good on you for being patient and not letting them drag you into a place that would have humiliated them, though.