One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
The mark of a great question is that it opens an interesting conversation
Why did you become a programmer ?
What's something meaningful you have done with ChatGPT ?
What's your favorite approach to test xxx ?
What you describe is a very different thing, it's essentially a JIRA ticket.
And the mark of a JIRA ticket is that it's boring and you want to close it as fast as possible.
What I have noticed is that devs are skilled at writing JIRA tickets
and therefore are not skilled at both asking and answering open questions.
Problem is that if you don't meet the requireemnts, by definition you are kind of dumb. And you don't want to be dumb, do you?
So you stay with your ego and your misery and stay with you unanswered questions, go in the internet, enter a rabbit hole, and do the same mistakes as everyone else.
I think this is a really toxic culture.
The most important questions in life are naive, are when you start, you don't even know how to formulate it properly.
Ask, just ask.
There’s no shame in asking a vague or incomplete question. That’s what questions are for. They’re to learn. So start with what you know to ask, and go from there.
The mark of a great question is that it opens an interesting conversation
What you describe is a very different thing, it's essentially a JIRA ticket.
And the mark of a JIRA ticket is that it's boring and you want to close it as fast as possible.
What I have noticed is that devs are skilled at writing JIRA tickets
and therefore are not skilled at both asking and answering open questions.
Being afraid to ask a question is very very common
Too much pride, too much ego, too much shame
I see multiple communities that have a channel
#no-dumb-questionsAnd at some point you have to wonder: why is it necessary to say that in the first place ?
The issue is that devs and people in general have internalized super high standards of what "smart questions" are
Problem is that if you don't meet the requireemnts, by definition you are kind of dumb. And you don't want to be dumb, do you?
So you stay with your ego and your misery and stay with you unanswered questions, go in the internet, enter a rabbit hole, and do the same mistakes as everyone else.
I think this is a really toxic culture.
The most important questions in life are naive, are when you start, you don't even know how to formulate it properly.
Ask, just ask.
There’s no shame in asking a vague or incomplete question. That’s what questions are for. They’re to learn. So start with what you know to ask, and go from there.
The problem is not dumb questions, the problem who rush to give a quick answewr
I understand the point, but you're missing the context.
The context for that was the error messages. People want their thing to work and in that case they don't want a conversation, they want a fix.
At other times? Sure, we don't need more tickets and sparking a conversation can bring unexpected results.