> Mid-level engineers who recently discovered software design patterns tend to fall into this category. A mid-level engineer who only just discovered Design Patterns. So, a first or second year university student is a mid level engineer?
In theory yes, in practice no. Generally speaking university students learn, prove-knowledge-of, then move on to the next course/subject. University projects also tend to be much smaller in scope than any sort of realistic product that a company can be built on. Therefore, the level of technical debt created by under-engineering and the codebase comprehension learning-curve created by over-engineering is not somethin…
Good point!
There is of course a difference between just studying for an exam and retaining the information long enough to pass the test, and actually retaining the information for a longer period and being able to apply the learned principles in bigger, industrial-scale projects.