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Depends on company and team I suppose; note there are many aspects to "training": 1. Formal training classes, internal or external - many large companies do of
by NikolaNovak 3y ago
Depends on company and team I suppose; note there are many aspects to "training":
1. Formal training classes, internal or external - many large companies do offer them
2. "Self-serve" internal training - videos and documents etc; again, many large companies do offer them
3. Informal coaching and mentoring - e.g. my boss is constantly providing feedback and mentoring, sometimes in tiny bitesize chunks you can easily miss and not categorize as training, sometimes in larger nuggets of wisdom. In turn, I do dedicates sessions when a person joins my team on what project is about overall, what their role and place is, what are the challenges and expectations; and then provide feedback and mentoring on continuous basis
4. Self-learning. As individuals we too have responsibility / ownership to train. Just like in my techie days, I'd devour e.g. Oracle DBA or AWS books for fun & profit, in principle, as a manager now, I should similarly read books on coaching and management (I must admit I find them less exciting; but other people feel differently:)
- giantg2 3y agoNumber 1 seems to be getting less common over time in my experience. Number 2 is basically worthless if they don't give you time to do that training and provides you with an actual mentor to discuss things. Number 3 is interesting. Oftentimes the feedback of managers is tainted by politics or anterior motives. Informal mentors can be found, but it seems very rare to me. In many cases in my past, it seems two mentors will offer you two conflicting pieces of advice. Number 4 seems to be the main method of learning companies are moving to. It does suck though because usually they treat personal project experience or school experience and no experience at all. Even if you can self train in 9 different listed tech in the job ad, there seems to always be a 10th that you don't know but they require.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoRe #3 - depending on the area, two mentors offering conflicting advice is not inherently bad. I meta-advise my mentees to always get multiple mentors for that specific reason - to better understand what advise/suggestion/knowledge is likely to be universal, vs specific/circumstantial/personal. Other times, there's just more than one way to taxiderm a feline. Like a surprising number of things, mentorship and advice should be actively sought if you want to benefit from them. It's one of a number of things I thought was automatic/granted early in my career :-/
- feoren 3y agoFYI, it's "ulterior motive" -- an "anterior motive" would be one that is right in front of you; almost the opposite of an ulterior one.
- giantg2 3y agoYeah, my spelling is bad, especially on the phone, and my autocorrect makes it even worse.