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When someone questions my work, effort or results from what I feel is an illegitimate place (ex: they're just trying to score easy political points) I find the
by ticmasta 7y ago
When someone questions my work, effort or results from what I feel is an illegitimate place (ex: they're just trying to score easy political points) I find the easiest way to resolve the situation is to ask them to take on some non-trivial component of the work and share it with the audience at a future date. Nothing shuts down jerk disrupters like the potential of performing hard work.
- reviel 7y agocan you give an example on how they are questioning you?
- wolco 7y agoWhat if they offer to rewrite your components as well to ensure quality across the board. Could lose a project that way.
- foobiekr 7y agoI strongly agree with this, and want to add one wrinkle. Depending on how you count, I have somewhere around 30Y of paid coding experience. It took me until maybe 5 years ago to have discovered this for myself. One thing I've noticed, though, is that if you create a culture around this, you'd must have guide rails in place. Otherwise, in the wrong company, or people will use the culture to present shoddy work with the expectation that other (senior or not) developers will challenge. These people exploit the culture by using shoddy implementations and challenges to offload hard parts of their projects. This is the mirror image of the illegitimate questions: illegitimate claims. As a senior engineer, you should ALWAYS be willing to lead from the front with code deliverables, but your review-to-code ratio is so skewed that the number of times you can satisfy that kind of challenge is low compared to the number of times when you might offer (sometimes negative) input.