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I tend to ask in rapid succession if obvious solutions were used. It gives me warmup time to think about more detail. Unfortunately people get annoyed when the
by ozim 3y ago
I tend to ask in rapid succession if obvious solutions were used. It gives me warmup time to think about more detail.
Unfortunately people get annoyed when they ask for help and someone offers them 10 solutions they already have tried.
But often one of the obvious was not tried or considered so the person gets quick solution. Otherwise warmup to think more in details and ask follow-up questions why some of “obvious” solutions did not work gives great intro to get up and fix something.
- tharkun__ 3y agoI think it very much depends on the how (as often). Very different to ask something along the lines of "Why didn't you just do X?" (the unwritten "duh!" being very implicitly present!) vs. "Interesting. Naively I would've have thought that doing X might solve this and seeing you didn't go with that solution I'd be interested to understand the constraints and reasons that make X unviable." With the first (type of) question you've disqualified yourself already, even though you didn't 'just give the solution' (which is even worse). After that kind of question we're already on adversarial grounds. The "5 whys" is a great technique but if literally just ask "Why" a lot, you'll get the boot more often than not ;)