[jknoepfler]

Not a sustainable model, or a formula for growth. If you genuinely think this fire your time wasters and raise your hiring bar.

If you don't invest a piece of your work week mentoring juniors, you're a lot less productive than you could be.

[candiodari]

Have you ever seen a product manager or "the meeting guy" train juniors ? That doesn't even make sense, as you haven't hired those juniors to do either product management or "stakeholder management" or ... whatever the next fashionable term will be, so they simply can't provide the training that is needed.

At least where I work, the "workhorses" are the ones training the new guys.

[aries1980]

I did and I was one of the mentee as an engineering lead. All I needed is to attend on meeting and listen or support the PM, but it was invaluable to see how to reason, convince stakeholders, gather requirements and objective feedback, and how not to give a fig to the emotions.

[aries1980]

Not every problem has to be solved in team fashion and not every member of an organisation has to fit in a hiring pattern. Also there are “brilliant jerks” or people with out-of-fashion worldview. These people could have their place in an organisation. Clearly this is a leadership challenge, but hey, leaders should learn hard and be great as much as their engineers.