Comment by bargainbin
Comment by bargainbin a day ago
Counterpoint, sometimes your engineer is taking ages to do small tasks because they’re incompetent, and if you do the task together you find it’s actually just you doing the work for them.
Had to deal with this recently after trying everything to stick to my world view of “anyone can learn this”.
Yeah, if this happens a lot (you needing to do the task with them only to realize they can't do it at all) then that is a strong signal on their performance, at least in whatever area the task belongs to. And I'm sorry - it's no fun to run up against this scenario.