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Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well

by @GergelyOrosz blog.pragmaticengineer.com published 2019-08-1520 min read

How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program. Almost

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