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Not bashing your answer but I just want to say a junior-ish developer who has read some of those books and is now overconfident in their skills is one of the wo
by borplk 4y ago
Not bashing your answer but I just want to say a junior-ish developer who has read some of those books and is now overconfident in their skills is one of the worst and most toxic combinations I have ever had to deal with.
Knowing very little yet too arrogant to learn and always ready to smack you with the appeal to authority of the last book they just read on 47 principles of good code.
So word of advice to OP, don't become the beginner expert who has crammed a few books and now wants to fight everybody for the best programmer championship belt.
Stay humble and learn from the master craftsmen who have been going at it for decades. No amount of Uncle Famous books and blog posts is going to substitute for that experience.
- raydiatian 4y agoAgree
- raydiatian 4y agoThen again, the reason it’s toxic is because of how we put rockstars on pedestals and perpetuate company cultures where plateaus are grounds for PIPs and terminations. Sometimes finding a mentor is hard when you feel like your coworkers and superiors resent your employment as a result of a supply-side shortage of “betters” engineers.