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Gatekeeping like this doesn't do anyone any benefit, aside from trying to inflate your ego at the expense of others. If you feel the need to make snarky comment

Gatekeeping like this doesn't do anyone any benefit, aside from trying to inflate your ego at the expense of others. If you feel the need to make snarky comments like this, it may be a good moment to stop and ask yourself why.

izacus 5y ago
This isn't gatekeeping, this is signaling that the lead might lack experience to even live through consequences of his processes and decisions. If you've never finished a project, lived through political, technological and social consequences of your actions, what use is your experience? You could make any decisions and you wouldn't know if they're worth anything. Doesn't mean his post is useless or worthless - but it does give important context to his writing.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago
  That's a good comment. A lot of people who give advice have never had to live through the long term consequences of their decisions. I have delivered systems that I thought were really well architected at the time but it turned there were a ton of problems and mistakes that cost us dearly years later.
kortilla 5y ago
The whole point of titles is to signal some kind of useful information about competence level, etc. Titles are the exact time we should do some gatekeeping. Being called a “senior engineer” with only 2-3 years is frankly a joke.
- Etheryte 5y ago
  I don't really see where you're coming from. The article doesn't mention the word senior in it anywhere, which makes this argument akin to a straw-man for lack of a better word.
  - kortilla 5y ago
    If “tech lead” is not at least equivalent to senior, then we have even a bigger problem.
dudeman13 5y ago
It does serve to benefit the reader. Knowing if someone is new to what they are discussing makes the reader less likely to take what they say at face value. While you should still be critical of people who have experience, it probably will hurt you less or give you different insights if what they are saying comes from experience. For example, I'm fairly certain the world of web programming would be way better off if lots of those tutorials had some sort of "I didn't know what HTTP or arrays were a couple of weeks ago" disclaimer :|

izacus 5y ago

This isn't gatekeeping, this is signaling that the lead might lack experience to even live through consequences of his processes and decisions. If you've never finished a project, lived through political, technological and social consequences of your actions, what use is your experience? You could make any decisions and you wouldn't know if they're worth anything. Doesn't mean his post is useless or worthless - but it does give important context to his writing.

spaetzleesser 5y ago
That's a good comment. A lot of people who give advice have never had to live through the long term consequences of their decisions. I have delivered systems that I thought were really well architected at the time but it turned there were a ton of problems and mistakes that cost us dearly years later.

kortilla 5y ago

The whole point of titles is to signal some kind of useful information about competence level, etc. Titles are the exact time we should do some gatekeeping. Being called a “senior engineer” with only 2-3 years is frankly a joke.

Etheryte 5y ago
I don't really see where you're coming from. The article doesn't mention the word senior in it anywhere, which makes this argument akin to a straw-man for lack of a better word.
- kortilla 5y ago
  If “tech lead” is not at least equivalent to senior, then we have even a bigger problem.

dudeman13 5y ago

It does serve to benefit the reader. Knowing if someone is new to what they are discussing makes the reader less likely to take what they say at face value. While you should still be critical of people who have experience, it probably will hurt you less or give you different insights if what they are saying comes from experience. For example, I'm fairly certain the world of web programming would be way better off if lots of those tutorials had some sort of "I didn't know what HTTP or arrays were a couple of weeks ago" disclaimer :|