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How many juniors should a senior mentor?
Our shop's size increases dynamically, so we are planning to hire a few new junior developers but we would not like to overwhelm the seniors with too much mentoring and training. How many (usually ...
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How to Gauge Junior Developer Knowledge
I've started mentoring a junior developer. I've read the community wiki on how to mentor and have been following many of the suggestions in there. The developer has a couple years experience, mostly ...
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Who should train new programmers? Junior or senior programmers?
On my team, we often require the most senior programmers to train/mentor the brand new junior programmers. However, these same senior programmers are the ones who are doing the bulk of the real, ...
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How to mentor junior programmer who may not be a good fit for programming?
I'm in a bit of a precarious position.
I'm working remotely for a client that has recently brought in a junior developer straight out of college into the project. He works physically at their office. ...
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Would you consider using training/mentoring from LearnersParadise.com?
My initial question deserves some explanation. I signed up for an account at learnersparadise.com. After signing up I couldn't login so I opted to use their "send password" feature.
Upon receiving my ...
