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Mentors do this for other incentives Can you please elaborate on this? It seems like your list of mentors is rather vast, and I'm curious what you've offered t

Mentors do this for other incentives Can you please elaborate on this? It seems like your list of mentors is rather vast, and I'm curious what you've offered them.

arikr 9y ago
My guess: giving back
rficcaglia 9y ago
Perhaps it is simply access to a curated pipeline of motivated and introspective potential candidates. Hiring (good people) is a dev manager's/director's biggest pain.
- HenriNext 9y ago
  Though, if the mentors poach mentees, then the company of the mentee won't be happy paying for the service.
qhoang09 9y ago
There are two categories of mentors: 1) Mentors who are already doing that or always wanted to do that, and what we provide them is: - No time spent on scheduling / rescheduling. We take care of this for them - We do a thorough work of qualification of the problem before so the mentee and mentors can jump right into the problem/challenge and spend 30 very efficient minutes - A perfect matching so they spend time with only people they can actually help - A product that ensures the follow-up, mentors don't want to give their time and receive 0 news from the mentee about how it evolved 2) For mentors who need to be convinced (although they already are very interested in the beginning, you can't convince someone who doesn't want to give their time), their feedback have been that: (i)They good to give back/help (ii)They learn a lot doing that, being confronted to so many different challenges every week challenges you (iii)We offer our best mentors to be speakers on our monthly meet-up (we organized 4 so far, we gathered ~200 Engineering Leaders each time). Next one: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plato-event-4-building-an-engineering-culture-that-retains-talent-tickets-37983706288 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plato-event-4-building-an-engin...

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Mentors do this for other incentives Can you please elaborate on this? It seems like your list of mentors is rather vast, and I'm curious what you've offered t

by daxorid 9y ago

Mentors do this for other incentives Can you please elaborate on this? It seems like your list of mentors is rather vast, and I'm curious what you've offered them.

arikr 9y ago
My guess: giving back
rficcaglia 9y ago
Perhaps it is simply access to a curated pipeline of motivated and introspective potential candidates. Hiring (good people) is a dev manager's/director's biggest pain.
- HenriNext 9y ago
  Though, if the mentors poach mentees, then the company of the mentee won't be happy paying for the service.
qhoang09 9y ago
There are two categories of mentors: 1) Mentors who are already doing that or always wanted to do that, and what we provide them is: - No time spent on scheduling / rescheduling. We take care of this for them - We do a thorough work of qualification of the problem before so the mentee and mentors can jump right into the problem/challenge and spend 30 very efficient minutes - A perfect matching so they spend time with only people they can actually help - A product that ensures the follow-up, mentors don't want to give their time and receive 0 news from the mentee about how it evolved 2) For mentors who need to be convinced (although they already are very interested in the beginning, you can't convince someone who doesn't want to give their time), their feedback have been that: (i)They good to give back/help (ii)They learn a lot doing that, being confronted to so many different challenges every week challenges you (iii)We offer our best mentors to be speakers on our monthly meet-up (we organized 4 so far, we gathered ~200 Engineering Leaders each time). Next one: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plato-event-4-building-an-engineering-culture-that-retains-talent-tickets-37983706288 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plato-event-4-building-an-engin...