[actually_a_dog]

> When working with junior engineers nowadays, I go out of my way to let them know that any question at any time is acceptable. I'll put down what I'm doing and help them through a problem and then celebrate the solution with them. I never want them to feel the fear of work and failure that I did.

I go even further than that. I tell juniors there's literally no way you can screw anything up so badly that we can't deal with it. If they write code that doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and it's not caught in code review, the reviewers are more to blame than they are, because they're supposed to know better. A junior shouldn't have the access level necessary to do something like drop the production database -- that's on their more experienced colleagues to set up those guard rails.