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Ummm, did you actually observe him struggling and clicking around for that whole day, or was he just slacking off?

• geodel 7y ago
  I do feel some sincere struggle on his part. He does not seem relaxed. Modifying code/configs and run again. It is just that he did not really understand what is wrong with his setup or based on errors how should he go about fixing it. He even told me that he is spending weekends to finish his tasks. Now I myself have long list of complaints about Spring/Microservice crap and its tendency to bury simple errors in 10 thick layers of abstraction. But that will be more relevant to IT related threads. It is because many other developers are dealing with it and still somehow make it work without spending days for an hour job.
  • flowersjeff 7y ago
    Maybe this is a definitions issue. One's 'junior' is another 'novice' - I say this, as I think that there's been a huge gulf forming in how we view the meaning of words (particularly relative to HR)...
  • ikeyany 7y ago
    He's not familiar with the ecosystem quite yet. Work with him through it a few times without making it look like he's being "tested".