[chkhd]

Good article.

In my personal experience a good mentor will never patronize but will still manage to convey their, usually higher, expectations for kind and quality of your work.

The best mentors I've had were also extremely good at receiving and processing feedback themselves because they honestly loved learning and wanted to be better as much as I did.

I'd had number of mentors, and myself almost a decade of experience teaching technical classes and 1:1 private lessons before I got into mentoring other SDEs at work and was amazed by how much I learned even just from first few relationships.

Coaching and mentoring really are so different.

I have definitely seen organizations where either the culture or the "climate" all but prevented effective mentor / mentee relationships no matter the effort. Really don't miss working at those places, probably the most burned out I had ever been in my career.