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Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. It's not a secret that your better people are supposed to help train other employees. Senior people train junio

Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. It's not a secret that your better people are supposed to help train other employees. Senior people train junior people, people with expertise in a domain share it, etc. Some fields even make this formal at the early levels, with apprenticeships, but I've worked in a number of fields and never had this not be the expectation. It's part of why you (should) get paid more than them. The real "dirty secret" is if you're not a team player, you're not a top performer because force multiplication through mentoring adds more value than the difference in your individual work.

qandb 10y ago
> Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. All morality in a corporate setting is fake by design. Everybody simply maximizes their own bottom line, and if you don't too, you are an idiot. Training your own competition is simply not a way to maximize your revenue.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
  I disagree on three levels: 1) I don't think the premise is true, that everyone maximizes their bottom line figure. 2) Prisoner dilemma logic is suboptimal in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Alliances are a thing in ongoing relationships. 3) Even if I were trying to maximize my individual value, training would still benefit me. Programmers with strong mentoring and management skills are more valuable to the corporations than programmers with just technical skills. Mentoring increases my value as a force multiplier faster than it increases any individual mentee's value.
- watwut 10y ago
  If you are immoral in corporate setting, then you are immoral person. There is nothung special about work that would up it outside of morality. Besides, training less experienced people is job expectation, exactly as writing unit tests and readabe code is job expectation. Nothing to do with morality.
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qandb 10y ago

> Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. All morality in a corporate setting is fake by design. Everybody simply maximizes their own bottom line, and if you don't too, you are an idiot. Training your own competition is simply not a way to maximize your revenue.

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
I disagree on three levels: 1) I don't think the premise is true, that everyone maximizes their bottom line figure. 2) Prisoner dilemma logic is suboptimal in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Alliances are a thing in ongoing relationships. 3) Even if I were trying to maximize my individual value, training would still benefit me. Programmers with strong mentoring and management skills are more valuable to the corporations than programmers with just technical skills. Mentoring increases my value as a force multiplier faster than it increases any individual mentee's value.
watwut 10y ago
If you are immoral in corporate setting, then you are immoral person. There is nothung special about work that would up it outside of morality. Besides, training less experienced people is job expectation, exactly as writing unit tests and readabe code is job expectation. Nothing to do with morality.

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