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Growth and Mentorship: Working with Junior Developers

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Transcript

  1. Growth and Mentorship Working with Junior Developers Jon Daniel @binarycleric

  2. chronicbuildfailure.co Chronic Build Failure

  3. Working in Tech Full-Time Since 2007 Lead Infrastructure Engineer at

    Heroku (only for 3 months so I’m still bad at my job) Mentored Junior Developers from 2012 - early 2016 (got laid off)

  4. A Note to Junior Developers

  5. Who is a Junior Developer?

  6. What should we expect them to know?

  7. “Bonus Points” are NOT requirements!

  8. Don’t Have Unrealistic Expectations

  9. Help Them Get Started

  10. Their First Deploy Should Happen Soon

  11. Make Them Comfortable

  12. Ensure They Build Confidence in Themselves

  13. Then... (now here comes the fun part)

  14. Push Them Slightly Out of Their Comfort Zone

  15. Work Towards Making Them a Subject Matter Expert

  16. Give Them Opportunities to Impress You

  17. Work on a Side Project Together

  18. Push to Github* Deploy on Heroku* (*or whatever)

  19. Get Them Excited!

  20. Pairing is Caring

  21. SENIOR DEV JUNIOR DEV ABOUT TO HAVE A PANIC ATTACK

  22. Team Dynamics

  23. Training and Mentoring them is “REAL WORK”

  24. Junior Developers are an Investment not a Distraction

  25. Special Thanks to Jordan Retterer - @jordanr64 Colin Dean -

    @colindean Lee Matibe - @Taitosoku Tina Wuest - @callmewuest