Re:“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
by cruano on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:13PM
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It also depends on what you are learning. I'm sure a junior engineer would get by just fine if all they had to do was learn a language, but if you have to look at a 10-year-old system where only senior co-workers know the context for, I wouldn't blame them for needing some hand-holding.
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Re:“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
by maerF0x0 on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:56PM
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yeah, in that case the Senior co-worker literally is the text book.
That being said, just reading the source code is under untilized these days. Engineers sometimes ask me how the system works, I send them to the repo. It's all right there, just have to learn to read the story it tells.
One risk is that often times the co-worker knows the business logic in "how it ought to be" not the reality of the underlying code. I've had engineers say "It works like X" and I have to say "well, only sometimes. The code says this..."