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Re:Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions ... by jniedrauer on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:50PM (#19702459)
> My team races at a million miles per hour, and frankly doesn't have the time to hand-hold a juniour as they learn the ropes.

Something is wrong if this is the case. Training new hires is part of the job. If they literally do not have the capacity to do that, then you are badly understaffed.

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Re:Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions ... by wool_gather on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:03PM (#19702541)
It can be a struggle to convince management that the team is understaffed for the expected work and needs to hire.

It can be an absolutely Herculean task to further convince them that, not only is the new person not going to increase velocity right off the bat, they're actually going to slow down the rest of the team to some extent.

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Re:Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions ... by jniedrauer on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:44PM (#19702843)
They can always learn the cost of turnover the hard way... when the team leaves.
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