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I'm curious if you've ultimately found your mentor's behavior to be a net positive, or net negative, in your career. One of the engineers under me often expres
by don-code 4y ago
I'm curious if you've ultimately found your mentor's behavior to be a net positive, or net negative, in your career.
One of the engineers under me often expresses his discontent that I won't give him answers, either. I think he's more than able to get to those answers on his own, and that the value he'll derive from learning how to learn is vastly greater than the value of being able to complete his work faster. On the other hand, he's given me the feedback that the method is excessively socratic at best, and flat-out frustrating at worst.
- philosopher1234 4y agoI think you have to strike a balance. In reality no one's knowledge came entirely from their own work and asking the right questions. Documentation is just one developer telling another how things work. Should we erase all docs? You must sometimes give the answer.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIt was absolutely a net positive, by a huge margin. > he's given me the feedback that the method is excessively socratic at best, and flat-out frustrating at worst. Yep, exactly how I felt in 1987. It was totally worth it, viewed from the present day.