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Ask HN: What a senior dev mentoring a junior one should do?
What exactly "mentoring a junior developer" means, in practical terms?
Recurrent meetings? How frequently?
Pass assigns, resources to learn from?
Directly teach CS and programming concepts?
How long it lasts? 3 months? 6? Years?
- jdavis703 7y agoA junior should already be familiar with CS & programming concepts. Where they need help is knowing when and where to apply them. If your company does code reviews this is a good place to teach about best practices. Likewise they should know that if they're stuck for more than N hours (say N=3) they should ask you for help. When they ask for help, don't just feed them the answer. Show them how you find the answer (e.g. running a debugger, looking up documentation, doing a Google search for the error code etc).