[moomoo11]

I'm cynical person, and IME the former are some of the most annoying and usually the worst engineers I've met.

Most people who "mentor" other people (like, make it a pride and distinction part of their identity) are usually the last people you want to take advice from.

Actual mentors are the latter group, who juniors seek out or look up to.

In other words, the former group is akin to those people on YouTube who try to sell shitty courses.

[quesera]

That's the extreme end of the first-group spectrum, but I definitely agree that they exist!