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Ways to annoy your senior engineer


A comprehensive list of things that grind the gears of most software engineer, especially the seniors

Providing a clear title, description, and agenda upfront saves everyone time and helps engineers show up prepared (or decline if they don’t need to be there). Or worse, it’s a verbal brain dump of thoughts that aren’t even fully formed yet, and now the engineer is expected to help structure them. After discussing with the engineer, they realize the correct solution is complicated, so they insist on a “quick hack” with the promise of “We’ll totally come back and clean it up later.”

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