Comment by strken

> The engineers will spend 10 minutes thinking about it, come up with a solution

This is fine if coupled with a dose of humility. Coming up with obvious solutions then researching why they don't work (or asking an expert) is a good way to understand the domain.

> (that won't work, but they insist it will) and dismiss the problem as "trivial", and think the guy is an idiot

This is obviously bad, but engineers often have imperfect people skills. I like to think they're aiming for the first but accidentally end up doing the second.

> it is not their job to rip each detail to shreds

It is an engineer's job to ask questions during planning when they're confused. This feels like it might be bad people skills again, because "ask questions" and "rip each detail to shreds" are in the same direction.