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"hiring the ones I think are eager and willing to learn" Where do you draw the line? How often can a junior approach you before you grow tired of them constan

• meddlepal 8y ago
  Not the OP, but I give junior engineers a lot of slack. I'm happy to spend a lot of time working with them. And you know if one keeps asking me lots if questions or looking fir guidance that's fine... maybe I need to do a better job explaining or send them off to look at something else that might be a better teaching aide. The hardest problem with mentoring juniors is that most companies don't recognize the work put in. Still too many places judge purely on your direct work-in to work-out ratio.
• jayjader 8y ago
  > How often can a junior approach you before you grow tired of them constantly asking you for help/guidance? Personally, it would depend on if they're learning from my guidance or not: if they keep coming back with the same problems I'd get frustrated that they (seemingly) weren't attempting to learn or improve. On the other hand, it they usually come to me with new problems they've encountered and gotten stuck on, I don't expect it would bother me nearly as much. Of course, IRL it'll probably be somewhere in between.