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Discussion on: How to ask senior devs for help?

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Mike Coutermarsh

It's part of senior engineers job to help unblock others. Don't feel bad :). Their purpose isn't to write code all day. It's to help level up the team + write some code.

A couple thoughts:
I'd recommend asking in a public channel if you can. Then there's multiple people who can help. Which distributes the questions beyond DM'ing the same person.

It also helps if you can include as much info as possible in a single message. Then that reduces the back and forth. @nataliedeweerd explained this well in their comment.

Everyone who is senior was once in your position. They remember how it feels. And soon enough, you'll be the one answering the questions.