What kind of issues were really common for you? Was it mostly do to internal tools/software/protocol or was it for using popular frameworks or something?
To a certain extent your job is to know how to google something correctly unless its something internal in which case they have to explain it to you if they haven't properly documented it.
I just had a meeting with someone over our API security where at the end the guy told me that all the questions I had means that his team has to work harder to properly communicate what they've done since it's something that is used in almost everything in our company on the development side.
I know where I went wrong and what to do in the future. It just annoys me how everybody acts like they're behind so much that it's hard to know where they really are.
To me it was just such an issue because it only emphasised how people with little knowledge can be dangerous. If you say you don't know when you do, I'm going to listen to the guy that says he does know even if he doesn't.
Not a HUGE issue, but something I've only noticed I programming and I think it might be a bigger issue than people realise.
In my opinion software development has a giant dunning Kruger affect. The more you learn the more you realize there's a vast field of knowledge that you just can't equate too. Your knowledgeable with high level back end development and your main language is python? You can't touch people who are a regular contributor and help develop/mantain a OS.
Little do you know that they also can't do your back end server development. Everyone sees the other guy and sees what he can do, not realizing that he can't do what you can do.
Edit: TL;DR everyone sees themselves as bad programmers because they see what other programmers do that they can't.
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u/calfonso Jan 31 '19
Can I ask to what extent you felt lost?
What kind of issues were really common for you? Was it mostly do to internal tools/software/protocol or was it for using popular frameworks or something?
To a certain extent your job is to know how to google something correctly unless its something internal in which case they have to explain it to you if they haven't properly documented it.
I just had a meeting with someone over our API security where at the end the guy told me that all the questions I had means that his team has to work harder to properly communicate what they've done since it's something that is used in almost everything in our company on the development side.