That's surprising. It happens with junior engineers who aren't used to having to solve tough problems. Most will take feedback and improve though. It also happ

That's surprising. It happens with junior engineers who aren't used to having to solve tough problems. Most will take feedback and improve though. It also happens with more intermediate or senior engineers who have been able to get away without rigorous methods to solve problems. Maybe they are used to an overly helpful tech lead, or they have changed domains to something more challenging/where stack overflow doesn't have the answer. Many a time I've been faced with obscure build/environment issues that no one on my team has seen, and googling doesn't provide any easy out. At that point, I feel the necessity for grit. It's a good word too, as it can feel like sandpaper on my soul to start cracking open codebases I wished just worked to get past a complete impasse that my deadline didn't account for me to face.