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I burnt out helping a junior on my team for the past few months. It was just terribly obvious she was feeding my responses directly into a chatbot to fix instea

by jfreds 7mo ago

I burnt out helping a junior on my team for the past few months. It was just terribly obvious she was feeding my responses directly into a chatbot to fix instead of actually understanding the issue. I can’t really even blame her, there isn’t much incentive to actually learn

hodgesrm 7mo ago
That sounds like a bad hire, not a junior. Why didn’t your manager help fix that?
- rsynnott 7mo ago
  I gather that quite a lot of companies are using dumb metrics which would show this as _good_ behaviour, these days.
  - lokar 7mo ago
    Sure, but the overriding metric should be the opinion of the Sr engineer who is supposed to be mentoring and supervising the Jr
    - rsynnott 7mo ago
      You'd hope, but, y'know, AI mania.
- jfreds 7mo ago
  Very bad hire. I’ve gently said as much to my manager and skip. But for some reason hiring is hard and firing is hard, and we’re a small team, so I’ve been told to just lower my standards. Yeah, I know
lokar 7mo ago
I've been in situations like that. For me, it's like interviewing, I just keep backing off, lowering the bar, making it easier and easier until they can get it, then start going back up again. I pretty quickly get a confident read on where they are. If at that point it's clear (to me) the situation is not salvageable, it's a management issue, I've done my job.