[inconceivable]

i got into an argument with a bigtech employee (outside of work, in a social setting) that senior engineers should spend 25% of their time mentoring junior hires.

he literally could not understand that a small company can't afford to do this.

not only that, he also could not understand that small companies doesn't even make junior hires. there's nobody to mentor!

and i would guess this guy has like a top 1% iq, whatever that is.

[dathinab]

IMHO the whole Software Enginer training pipeline is fully broken for a lot of overlapping reasons and I have no idea how to fix it.

[fsociety]

If you can’t afford ~25% of your week educating junior hires, then you shouldn’t have junior hires.

It is a sin of the industry to not train new folks, and I would argue that many “senior engineers” do not know how to mentor juniors because they don’t see it as a priority.

I was heavily mentored during my time in small businesses with limited resources and profit. I hope others get that experience too.

[mixmastamyk]

Sounds like a lack of experience, aka knowledge... orthogonal to IQ.

Boils down to not realizing most companies don't have buckets of money raining from the heavens. Inconceivable!

[tayo42]

that makes no sense, big tech companies are expected to be training small company employees? who is supposed to hire juniors?

[inconceivable]

see, everyone? these people exist. i'm not making things up.

[granshaw]

High IQ, low EQ