On BEEING Stupid as an Early-Career Software Engineer >> You spend half a day stuck on one bug before you ask your more senior teammate for help. They look at

On BEEING Stupid as an Early-Career Software Engineer >> You spend half a day stuck on one bug before you ask your more senior teammate for help. They look at it, click around the codebase a bit, change one of the parameters you’re passing, and it’s fixed in 10 minutes. The trick is that senior teammate wrote the overengineered, byzantine atrocity, where each functionality spans over 53 levels of call stack, 18 clases each with 12 parameters and 7 parametrized template / generics and talks to 5 microservices in a k8s cluster. The stupidity of junior engineers is to assume they compete in a fair game.