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by mattbrewsbytes 820 days ago
You can't. It would be like an architect attempting to give feedback to a junior electrician. You have to be able to assess someone's work output (i.e. code in this case) to know where they are and what they might need to get more experience doing.

If you don't have an engineering background or any senior engineers around, you don't have expertise to share or to even know if what they are building is being done properly. Properly means many different things and there can be many different solutions to the same problem that are all fine.

I would suggest your organization hire an EM and/or a Senior Engineer/team lead that can help guide solutions. Or if you're in a department of a larger company, see if there are mentors available from other departments.

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As an experienced engineering manager, 90% of the membership and coaching my reports asked for was non-technical. Work output was rarely discussed as senior engineers and peers handled code concerns during the PR process.
They indicated it’s a team of all juniors so I didn’t see how they can receive any coaching on software. There’s a lot of growth from junior to mid and senior, it can happen fast but without guidance the basic work and software designs could be a large issue.