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Discussion on: How to ask senior devs for help?

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klabautercoder

My point of view is, that we seniors (I do the job since 2000) want make every junior able to work indepently. But we also not want do make the juniors dependent from us.

I also work as trainer for new Software Developers. We talk about the issue of asking questions and use the following ruleset:

Show what brings you to the point to ask your questions. Most questions are not the point, but the work before.
Be sure that you not just want to get a fast solution for your problem by asking the senior. The way to become a professional is quite hard. We want you get get experience in that.

For me this is the big difference in beeing a junior. Juniors need to learn methodical thinking with the help of the seniors.