Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink
by zx8080 on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:57PM
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Does this happen anywhere? I've never seen any manager personally mentoring juniors.
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Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink
by justinclift on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:04PM
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Not sure about managers, but (more) senior technical staff and team leaders are supposed to mentor the less experienced technical staff.
Whether or not it happens seems to depend on the team. Personally, I like teaching people new stuff so it would often fall to me, on the teams I worked in. ;)
Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink
by johncalvinyoung on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:11PM
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Definitely. I'm a team lead (duties: mix of team management, project management, and some IC development), and my mentor is on the management team, and I mentor a junior dev. One of my prior mentors (as a junior dev back then) was the company founder/CEO twenty-five years senior to me.
Of course, that founder was one of the originators of XP practice, and ran our company on those principles--pairing, fast feedback loops, and mentorship for all (he's since handed over the company to his #2 who he mentored for a decade, and who is continuing those practices).