First off, your manager, team leader, or whomever is supposed to be mentoring you is likely worse at “leadership” than you are at programming. If you get the o

First off, your manager, team leader, or whomever is supposed to be mentoring you is likely worse at “leadership” than you are at programming. If you get the opportunity to provide feedback, give honest feedback. Tell them they suck at mentoring, they make you feel inferior, and that you would not recommend anyone work there based on the extremely poor environmental, professional, and career-development qualities. Second, get the hell out of there. Again, get-out-of-there. You don’t have to play the social reindeer games to simply be treated as a professional.