The Senior Engineer's Duty: Why Mentorship Matters
Mentorship is the flywheel of the tech industry. Learn how to be a great mentor and why it accelerates your own career.
There is a misconception that mentorship is charity. "I'm giving up my time to help a junior." Wrong. Mentorship is an investment with compound returns.
The Feynman Technique
You don't truly understand a concept until you can explain it to a beginner. Mentoring forces you to solidify your own knowledge base. It reveals the gaps in your understanding.
How to Mentor Effectively
- Don't Give Answers, Give Paths: Teach them how to debug, not just what the bug is.
- Normalize Failure: Share your own war stories of bringing down production. Imposter syndrome thrives in isolation.
- Sponsor: Mention their name in rooms they aren't in.
The Cycle
Senior engineers who don't mentor create a bottleneck. Senior engineers who DO mentor create a 10x team. The legacy of your code will fade (it will be refactored). The legacy of the people you helped will last a career.
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