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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by theshrike79 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:50PM (#27416201)
> How to admit you don't know something as a senior engineer and learn from junior engineers who are closer to the new technologies.

(For reference: I've been paying my bills with code for a good 20 years now.)

I've learned 80% of what I know about Javascript, Typescript and React from one dude on my team who was freshly out of university. The dude was (and still is) a damn genius at that stuff.

If he doesn't burn out by overreaching, he'll be a legend by 2025 =)

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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by fibonachos on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:08AM (#27419183)
Same. I’ve been at it for 20 years and just never was in a job that used React or Typescript. In my current job I was paired with a boot camp grad probably ~15 years my junior who has been an amazing mentor as I learned React + Redux + Typescript.
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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by mellavora on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:00AM (#27420172)
I learned sass from an intern we hired.
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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by brailsafe on Monday June 07, 2021 @08:35PM (#27429236)
Emphasis on if he doesn't burn out.
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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by theshrike79 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:24AM (#27431232)
Yea, he was (and still is) the kind of person you need to force to take vacations.

We literally took away his work laptop and disabled his office key access so he wouldn't work during his summer holidays :D

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Re:An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyon... by brailsafe on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:08AM (#27433489)
That was me, though perhaps less proficient, until I realized that all the work was basically worthless trash and there's little point in putting my employer before my own interests. Now I can't figure how to do that again!
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