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Re:Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had to Become a Manag... by qup on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:43PM (#35102963)
The take is your salary, in my experience. I'm not sure what you mean about questions.
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Re:Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had to Become a Manag... by idiotsecant on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:47PM (#35103004)
It seems obvious - if you scare a junior engineer they will sit in their office and build an abomination to avoid asking a simple question that could be answered in 3 minutes.

It's a real thing and it doesn't help the junior engineer or the business.

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Re:Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had to Become a Manag... by opdahl on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:51PM (#35103688)
Which would not be contributing value to the company. I think his point was that a junior should learn that just working blindly like that is not always the right thing either.
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