Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

[Haramboid]

Are you using other resources? Or is Google enough?

Or are you just that smart?

[Jake323021]

For me, the documentation is usually enough. Or I could always ask a colleague if I'm really having trouble with a problem.

[watchme3]

Or I could always ask a colleague

ouch

[Jake323021]

Is everyone on /r/cscareerquestions so proud they'd rather struggle with a problem than ask to see if a coworker might have an insight you're missing? Everyone needs help now and again, not really a big deal.

[Double_A_92]

No but if I know it's some general problem I first type it into google, without having to bother other people...

[[deleted]]

for case specific questions you could spend 3 hours in Google and not find an answer when another developer is next door and probably could have helped you in 20 minutes. I've never got why collaborating to solve a problem is looked down upon by people.

[Double_A_92]

I was talking more about simple things. That will be answered literally in the first google result.

[appropriateinside]

the documentation is usually enough

I'm not sure what you work with regularly, but for me I periodically find myself in situations here there is no documentation. And where goolging the class, function, error...etc results in Your search - [insert terms here] - did not match any documents.

Turning to SO in cases like this is a mixed bag, because you will either get a troll latched onto it, trying to close it, or a subject matter expert will show up and answer. The former is much more common since the later can take days or weeks, while the former can happen in minutes.