I understand where the author is coming from, but your curiosity needs to be organic and come from a real yearning to understand the business. I can see a lot of young engineers thinking they need to voraciously hunt down random higher-ups 'just because'.
There's no shortage of things to learn in an organization and sometimes it's best to start in an area closer to you (see: with Sr. Engineers).
It's perfectly possible to sponge up knowledge from Sr. Engineers, while picking up different bits of knowledge from people who are in different roles altogether.
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I understand where the author is coming from, but your curiosity needs to be organic and come from a real yearning to understand the business. I can see a lot of young engineers thinking they need to voraciously hunt down random higher-ups 'just because'.
There's no shortage of things to learn in an organization and sometimes it's best to start in an area closer to you (see: with Sr. Engineers).
False dichotomy.
It's perfectly possible to sponge up knowledge from Sr. Engineers, while picking up different bits of knowledge from people who are in different roles altogether.