Growth and Mentorship: Working with Junior Developers

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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