We had an intern last year, and I got a chance to do a 1-on-1 with him later on on his time with us. He was looking for some insights from the engineer in the

We had an intern last year, and I got a chance to do a 1-on-1 with him later on on his time with us. He was looking for some insights from the engineer in the org with the longest career in tech. The biggest single thing I think I ended up doing during that session was getting him to re-frame his thinking from "I'm a React developer" to "I'm a developer", emphasising how all the fundamentals remain the same, just the nitty gritty implementation changes a bit from time to time. It was interesting to watch that lightbulb moment happening with him as we were talking, while also frustrating that the bootcamp etc. training he'd been through had so fundamentally set his thinking up wrong from the outset (since had a few more interns that came via different bootcamps, and it has been the same story with each!)