So on a different platform, I came across heated conversations about more experienced tech workers being unwilling to mentor new entrants. While I thought that was an unfair accusation, I thought to ask a wider audience their views and thoughts on mentoring upcommers. Do you mentor anyone? Were you mentored? How much impact does mentoring have on career growth?
I think mentoring is incredibly important-it’s how the field.stays vital. I’ve done it in my career through code reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and for hobby stuff even just writing blog posts about how I got stuff to work.
I think giving them a small project tight out of the gate might be the best.
While not a tech mentor, I am a tech teacher and my students will rise to my expectations.
