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Nearly 10 years ago my manager suggested we get a mentor so I chose a great Java developer in our team (I didn't have much OO experience) and wanted to learn ab
by thorin 4y ago
Nearly 10 years ago my manager suggested we get a mentor so I chose a great Java developer in our team (I didn't have much OO experience) and wanted to learn about dependency injection and TDD and all that stuff. A couple of weeks later this great dev was pushed out / fired over some argument with a manager, so that ended pretty quickly! I had a great mentor when I started my last job although he left pretty quickly it was probably him that gave me the confidence to move from developer to tech arch. I hope it wasn't me that made them leave :-)
- gabereiser 4y agoMentors usually transcend a single role at a single company. If your mentorship ended when they left the company, it wasn't mentorship, it was training.
- stcroixx 4y agoI think that bar is too high and you can still call this mentorship. It would be exceedingly rare to find someone who is going to mentor someone for free across multiple companies. When I mentor vs. train, I care a bit more, follow up more, the scope is broader, more personal, etc., but I'm not adopting you for life.