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Helping a junior and maintaining relationships with your fellow seniors is a part of the job too.
by aspaceman 7y ago
Helping a junior and maintaining relationships with your fellow seniors is a part of the job too.
- monsieurbanana 7y agoBut surely there's ways of doing that without making people lose their focus.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoActually, is there?
- OJFord 7y agoYes, you pick the moment (much) better than wandering over to peek over their shoulder when 'something interesting is going on'. IMO that's exactly when you don't, ask them about it later. To borrow from that cringeworthy scene in The Social Network: He's wired in!
- nickpsecurity 7y agoSuch as assigning times for focused vs collaborative work.
- bochoh 7y agoYes, a vibrant meme room in a "management expects you to respond to business issues in this room" channel on <slack|teams|etc>
- chasd00 7y agoalso, imo explaining something complex to someone junior often leads to answers to other questions. For some reason, talking through code out loud helps the problem solving process.