| Beware Imposter syndrome - it's likely you are over thinking this Second, what is a decent speed of delivery? The thing that most affects speed of delivery is familiarity with the code base. The major, probably only reason senior devs are senior is because they are senior in that codebase. Pluck someone from Facebook and drop them in Google and they will face problems similar to you. Good ones will explore on their own, familiarise themselves, find mentors and build relationships to ask and guide themselves - and even write posts on HN to get guidance! Thirdly, expecting speed of delivery is the fastest way to destroy a team - or a coherent codebase. People get panicked and either drastically drop their productivity or choose to code really safely, driving code reviewers / team leads to spend more time on managing - whereas removing project managers from the critical path and having an engineering quality as the prime driver is a major help (You night think you are being rejected because quality is too low (and that maybe) but what are the senior devs being driven by? deadlines or quality? That will affect the time they have for mentoring. This fear is all pervasive - senior devs do t want to venture out of their comfort areas, partly due to time constraints (see project management) and partly fear of not knowing how to intersect with other codebases and people. passing over code patches to another team is always an act of human relationships - you need time to get up to speed with the codebase, they need good patches to trust you and they need to give you time and mentoring to understand the code base and their taste. Long story short - asking this is a good sign about you and a bad sign about the mentoring process you are under. |