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by Tomis02 1536 days ago
> a lot of employers / teams still have not setup effective means for including and training the less experienced members of the team

In my experience, this is not correlated with remote or office work in any way. For the most part of my career, spent in the office, I have not received any form of mentorship, even though I would have liked it. Most people I've met don't have the "mentorship gene", so to speak. They don't really care enough to stop what they're doing and share this knowledge with you.

The company I'm currently with is an exception to the general rule I've seen in the industry. Specifically, they put a lot of effort into actively sharing knowledge (as in, you don't have to ask for it, it will be given to you even if you're too shy to say anything). And they're fully remote.

So, to put it another way - if a company doesn't put any effort into training while remote, I find it difficult to believe things are any different in an office. Maybe what you miss is those interactions that are inevitable when you're physically working next to others; maybe it was a way to get "training" by accident. But there's no reason why you can't do the same remotely. You could try pair programming, for example, or you could all be in a Discord channel and just work in the same virtual place.