commentary from first time staff engineers should be taken with a grain of salt because they can be silly trying to prove themselves. same as first time people

commentary from first time staff engineers should be taken with a grain of salt because they can be silly trying to prove themselves. same as first time people managers with an engineering background. if they're not a few iterations through the engineering manager pendulum, they're still getting their bearings. if you're at a company where leadership doesn't understand this, do your mental health a favor and leave.