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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by wing-_-nuts on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:52PM (#26731098)
>you are a senior resource, you should not ask such questions; if you want to find answers, look into the code itself.

You should never tell anyone they 'should not ask such questions', but I will absolutely tell you 'hey, go read this code / documentation and it will help you understand'. Mainly, I just want you to show me that you've at least attempted to solve or research the problem yourself. If you've done that I'm happy to help. Unfortunately a lot of Jrs straight out of school seem to expect to be spoon fed answers, and it makes me wonder if college has changed since I graduated.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by hindsightbias on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:48PM (#26732542)
Most work knowledge now is google deep, but even back to the 80’s I encountered a lot of college grads who did not want to read the code.

A lot of it is intimidation, they’d never seen a printout stack of 50 or 100K eslocs. Kids today never start with monolithics like that but they do get swamped by the fifty layers/packages that change every year.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by worker767424 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:43PM (#26732480)
> it makes me wonder if college has changed since I graduated.

Or how you have grown since you graduated.

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