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 question

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.