Here’s what I’ll say, management taught a generation of devs to ask instead of researching, aka rtfm. If I had a quarter for the number of times I was told to ask for help sooner by a non tech manager I could have retired by now and had a farm.
It’s because for every dev who asks too soon there’s another dev somewhere that doesn’t ask at all, bills 300 hours their first month without being asked to, delivers nothing because they refused to ask for help and couldn’t figure it out either. That dev is why people hate off-shoring to India. They did not work a second month.
That’s preferable to people who don’t ask for help until everything is hopelessly fucked because they kept trying to solve their problem different git commands, none of which they understood.
Eh, git is never really that fucked. If you understand how it works, it’s generally not hard to get back to a state you want (assuming everything has been committed at some point, ofc).
I would much rather people try to spend some time trying to understand and solve a problem first. I had a “senior” engineer who would message me literally every morning about whatever issue he was facing and it drove me absolutely nuts. Couldn’t do anything for himself. Unsurprisingly, he was recently laid off.
Seniors should know their shit. If a junior doesn’t need help they’re either not doing their job or not a junior.
I think you haven’t met “problem solvers” as creative as the ones I’ve met. My first job out of college I built an inventory system for a small engineering firm. One of the engineers tried to solve his problem instead of asking for help. Once he gave up and called us, it took us an entire day just to figure out how he had managed to screw things up as badly as he did.
Here’s what I’ll say, management taught a generation of devs to ask instead of researching, aka rtfm. If I had a quarter for the number of times I was told to ask for help sooner by a non tech manager I could have retired by now and had a farm.
It’s because for every dev who asks too soon there’s another dev somewhere that doesn’t ask at all, bills 300 hours their first month without being asked to, delivers nothing because they refused to ask for help and couldn’t figure it out either. That dev is why people hate off-shoring to India. They did not work a second month.
That’s preferable to people who don’t ask for help until everything is hopelessly fucked because they kept trying to solve their problem different git commands, none of which they understood.
Eh, git is never really that fucked. If you understand how it works, it’s generally not hard to get back to a state you want (assuming everything has been committed at some point, ofc).
I would much rather people try to spend some time trying to understand and solve a problem first. I had a “senior” engineer who would message me literally every morning about whatever issue he was facing and it drove me absolutely nuts. Couldn’t do anything for himself. Unsurprisingly, he was recently laid off.
My time should be respected.
Seniors should know their shit. If a junior doesn’t need help they’re either not doing their job or not a junior.
I think you haven’t met “problem solvers” as creative as the ones I’ve met. My first job out of college I built an inventory system for a small engineering firm. One of the engineers tried to solve his problem instead of asking for help. Once he gave up and called us, it took us an entire day just to figure out how he had managed to screw things up as badly as he did.