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I worked in a place where my team lead wanted us to vote on a technical decision. I found that unfair because half of the team was at a junior level.
by viseztrance 7y ago
I worked in a place where my team lead wanted us to vote on a technical decision. I found that unfair because half of the team was at a junior level.
- lonelappde 7y agoIf you can't explain why your idea is good to a junior engineer, voting is the lead of your problem. If you mistrust half your team as a rule, how can you trust anything to get done well?
- fouc 7y agoIt's hard to explain to junior engineers why chasing fads is a bad idea. Why boring technology is often the best choice. That's only something that most people figure out with experience.
- empath75 7y agoSeniors often don’t like doing new things for the simple reason that they already know how to do things a different way and they don’t feel like learning something new.
- celticmusic 7y agoand juniors like to make mistakes because that's how they turn into seniors. The point is, and will continue to be, that a senior's opinion should be heeded or you disallow them from steering the ship away from the glacier that they know is there. You can always justify everything with a reason. If your goal is to justify, then great, you did that. If your goal is to be effective, you need to stop trying to justify.
- drewcoo 7y agoDo both groups favor turning every decision into a dichotomy? If so, maybe those aren't seniors after all.