I encourage juniors in my team to interview staff level engineers all the time.
A significant part of a staff level and higher engineer is mentoring. I am looking to you to help train the juniors.
If you appear intimidating, the juniors are not going to be comfortable reaching out to you for help. If you appear condescending, same effect.
I explicitly ask the juniors to not evaluate the candidate from a technical skills point of view. Obviously that's a waste of time and an insult to the senior person. Instead, I ask them to evaluate the candidate from a human perspective. Does the candidate use every opportunity to showcase his/ her seniority? Does the candidate put you at ease?
> Have you ever seen a config file where everything is commented out, but shows every option and the default value? I love those configs.
> Funny, I hate those. I want to have a minimal file that I feel like I crafted just for my purposes
There is no harm in providing the full config and allowing the user to minimize it.
At least that way I can do a `grep -v ^#` or something to avoid showing the comments and still get a minimal file when I want to see the minimal version
A significant part of a staff level and higher engineer is mentoring. I am looking to you to help train the juniors.
If you appear intimidating, the juniors are not going to be comfortable reaching out to you for help. If you appear condescending, same effect.
I explicitly ask the juniors to not evaluate the candidate from a technical skills point of view. Obviously that's a waste of time and an insult to the senior person. Instead, I ask them to evaluate the candidate from a human perspective. Does the candidate use every opportunity to showcase his/ her seniority? Does the candidate put you at ease?