Comment by Len Lattanzi on "How do you handle the mentoring part in your team, especially mentoring junior software developers?"

I usually spend some time giving broad overviews and then leave my door open for any lingering questions. There are no stupid questions during onboarding.

If I had formal responsibility for the junior developer then I'd set up some achievements

File first bug as originator
First commit
First commit with no significant review push-back
First time breaking the build
First bug resolved
First time updating the wiki
First time creating new wiki page

and monitor the progress

In general I try to teach how to fish rather than provide sushi.

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