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Learning-focused engineering (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Are You Really Effective With Your Struggle?

For senior engineers that are in these mentorship s, there are definitely signs of effective struggle and ineffective struggle. You should always be able to clearly articulate what is my question? What is not working about my solution? And as soon as it starts to get difficult to explain that to someone else, that's how you know you're getting into these ineffective struggles. One thing that we would see a lot with people who are struggling and spinning their wheels was like they wanted to hold on to all these things that they tried. Like i can tell you tried ten things, and you're afraid to get rid of them because you don't know if they worked or not. That's not effective struggle any

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