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"Is this how working with these guys is going to be?" Unfortunately, yes. Young engineers are terrible at communication and working with others. Partly due to
by nine_zeros 5y ago
"Is this how working with these guys is going to be?"
Unfortunately, yes. Young engineers are terrible at communication and working with others. Partly due to workplace incentives and partly because you must realize that entire generations have grown up with computers and not people.
- Zelphyr 5y agoI don't think this deserves the downvotes it is getting simply because there is some truth to the comment. A good friend of mine worked with a young developer recently who was excited about what he was able to generate with a single npm command. When my friend, who has been writing software longer than this guy has been alive, calmly pointed out that the npm command had just generated 400 files and thousands of lines of code that didn't actually solve their problem, this guy got mad and went to complain to their manager.
- cratermoon 5y agoI'd be mildly ticked-off, too. The senior guy was being an ass.
- mkr-hn 5y agoI can easily imagine how it went down. "Wow! I can do so much with so little!" "Everything you just generated is wasteful and meaningless." The right way is to encourage that enthusiasm and guide them toward doing more useful work with the same power they just discovered.
- mkr-hn 5y agoWe only have your telling of your friend's telling of the story. This is rhetorically similar to saving a 50% quality jpeg as a 20% quality jpeg.
- teclordphrack2 5y agoIn all honesty it's not just younger developers. I have worked in plenty of companies where the idea of "communication" needed to be stressed and would of fixed many problems and saved a lot of money.