Yeah, I saw the terms mentor and coach being used in different and confusing ways in this thread. I figured they don't have clear meanings and that is fine. W

Yeah, I saw the terms mentor and coach being used in different and confusing ways in this thread. I figured they don't have clear meanings and that is fine. We can approximate well enough. I imagined in-office mentoring as being something like meeting with the person for an hour or two a week, looking at the current state of their project and making comments, doing some pair programming, that sort of thing. I've received lots of informal mentoring myself in that way, so I was looking forward to doing it. But it never came up.