>It's also easy for the juniors to depend on the mentor-level folks taking care of the more complex things. From my experience, this isn't just the juniors. It

>It's also easy for the juniors to depend on the mentor-level folks taking care of the more complex things. From my experience, this isn't just the juniors. It feels "easier" (read: efficient short term, problematic long term) for the party doing the "teaching" and management wanting things to be done quick. This also makes it harder to raise mentors, since would-be mentors aren't acquiring the experience to become mentors. This becomes even worse in places where bad practices and inefficient long term solutions reign. Best case, it keeps people from learning proper practices on their own thanks to all the friction. Worst case, it creates a cargo cult where bad practices are continuously hammered down and any attempt at breaking the cycle is met with even worse friction.