> They were certainly not a new hire (they'd been at the company 7 years - if anything I was the new hire!), but I generally agree. That tends to make it harde

> They were certainly not a new hire (they'd been at the company 7 years - if anything I was the new hire!), but I generally agree. That tends to make it harder. I've experienced quite a few people more "senior" than me (either age-wise or company-tenure-wise or both) who had trouble having the less-senior guy telling them things like suggesting different designs or code refactors. Some things were just not obvious why my suggestions were better, but they were based on experience with this particular technology. So they preferred to ignore the advice and run into the issues I and other colleagues had run into 3 years prior cause they didn't want to listen. Sadly, they didn't always have to live with the consequences since some of them moved on before the consequences became obvious, so we had to clean up the mess we were suggesting against in the first place.