[root-z]

As an engineer I meet one of these people with the the just-feed-me mindset once in a while (luckily not too often). They are never very good at their job, because they lack perhaps the single most important ability for an engineer, to research on their own. An example is when an engineer could find the API doc with a 5 min search but choose to bother their co-workers for it repeatedly. They will also often complain about the lack of documentation but when they actually do projects the documentation are not more accessible either.

I also find people with this mindset hard to coach, just because it's a very passive attitude, and simple words of advice couldn't do much to change the passivity.

There is always a limit to guidance or documentation. Code changes every day in any decent software project and docs become stale quickly. Even if the docs are there, it's always a good idea to take a look at the code, do some research on your own and see if you find any discrepancies.