Timeline for How to manage a junior developer who complains that a senior developer is throwing lots of comments on their code reviews? (Updated with more info)
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| May 31, 2022 at 18:48 | comment | added | Ertai87 | As another note, the thing is that coding standards are a minimum quality bar; in other words they are a requirement but not sufficient. For example, if you ask me to write code that does A, and I instead write code that does B, even if my B code matches your quality bar, you're going to ask me why the heck I wrote B and not A, and that's a reasonable question to ask. | |
| May 31, 2022 at 18:41 | comment | added | work_tech | I am referring to the first paragraph itself, it does not talk about empathy. I'd like to rest my case here! Thank you for your time. I can be a dick, but prefer not to be so. | |
| May 31, 2022 at 18:33 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @work_tech As a senior manager I have trouble believing you have this much difficulty with basic reading comprehension. I said the /first/ paragraph, not the second. There's a reason I said that. | |
| May 31, 2022 at 18:23 | comment | added | work_tech | yeah, that does not talk about showing empathy, it rather talks about helping the junior engineer understand where his code lacks so that they can ramp up and upgrade themselves to be on par with the coding standards of the team. | |
| May 31, 2022 at 18:18 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @work_tech Please reread the first paragraph of my (original) answer. | |
| May 31, 2022 at 18:05 | comment | added | work_tech | Ertai87 - What about showing empathy to the junior engineer if their code review is upto the coding standards yet senior engineer has been throwing comments? I do not see anyone in this thread talking about showing empathy to the junior engineer, not sure why. | |
| May 28, 2022 at 5:47 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @work_tech The solution to your problem depends very much, as you can see, on whether you're a middle manager or a senior manager. If you want an answer "as a senior manager", as you requested in your question, I will point you to the new answer. If you are acting as a middle manager as the direct report of these 2 engineers, then that's not "as a senior manager"; the fact is that true senior managers don't have to deal with this nonsense unless something in their chain of command has gone horribly awry. | |
| May 27, 2022 at 21:53 | comment | added | work_tech | In some teams both junior and senior developers report to a senior manager, for example, when a middle manager is being hired the senior manager, manages both the junior and senior devs directly. In this case, your previous answer makes sense. | |
| May 27, 2022 at 20:09 | history | edited | Ertai87 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 26, 2022 at 19:51 | history | answered | Ertai87 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |