Post by @polotek@social.polotek.net

@polotek@social.polotek.net

2024-05-01 22:58 UTC

This was 20 years ago. The industry has shifted in and pretty big ways. As a manager for the last 10 years, I've had different experiences growing teams of engineers. Many of them have the impression that their instincts are the only ones that matter. Many people react poorly to being told "uh, no that's not right." At the same time. Many engineers are starved for experienced mentorship where none is available. There's nobody else to talk to about whether their estimates are any good.

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@polotek@social.polotek.net 2024-05-01 23:01

I didn't realize at the time that the support I had early in my career was not only good but also atypical. It wasn't until my 3rd job that I had my first experience of managers and more senior dev who were unhelpful and also not better than me at what we were doing. That was wild. And pretty frustrating.

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@ciggysmokebringer@kolektiva.social 2024-05-02 23:11

@polotek@social.polotek.net How much of this is some kind of unsaid but held belief that 'I'm only as good as my own ideas' and then fighting for them? I wonder this all the time when it comes to vocations and professions where that seems to matter more. Just asking from the Helpdesk Jockey position where nobody tells us we're per se wrong all the time, but nobody is also telling us we were right but the break/fix being resolved, lol.

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