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Seems cynical. In my experience, junior devs are just more susceptible to cargo-culting and getting excited about cool ways to apply the things they learned in
by kdmccormick 3y ago
Seems cynical. In my experience, junior devs are just more susceptible to cargo-culting and getting excited about cool ways to apply the things they learned in undergrad. I haven't actually seen a lot of "resume-driven development" in my (relatively limited) time in the industry... just well-intentioned eager people with more knowledge than wisdom.
- chiefalchemist 3y ago> just well-intentioned eager people with more knowledge than wisdom. Yup. And that by definition is a junior colleague ;)
- vrosas 3y agoI like to describe my colleagues as the delta between how smart they are, and how smart they _think_ they are. “Junior” devs almost always fall in the “wide gap” spectrum but it is by no means restricted to any age group.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoDunning Kruger as a spectrum within the context of engineering? That's genius. I'm going to borrow (read: steal) that.