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Re:Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers? by monocasa on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:34PM (#16708414)
As somone who started the same day as another junior developer in my first job, I second this.

Just having someone who's also junior who you don't feel any shame about asking stupid questions to is killer. You shouldn't feel any shame either way, but that's sort of one of the things you learn transitioning out of a junior role.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers? by fdafellow on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:10PM (#16709457)
Would you able to divulge the name of the company?
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers? by monocasa on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:29PM (#16709694)
There's not really any value. This was many years ago, and the company has changed a lot. It also isn't a company many people have heard of.
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers? by throwexcep on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:42PM (#16710853)
I also had the experience of starting out a job with someone with almost the same level of knowledge as me and I can testify it was a brilliant idea. The integration into the team/company/stack is much smoother when you have buddy that is at the same position as you.
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