Every Developer Needs a Mentor
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In your first few years on the job, you’re likely to face a steep learning curve as you work on growing your coding skills and just learning your way around work in the tech industry.
One way to help ease some of those challenges is finding a mentor — someone with more experience who can help teach and guide you as you establish yourself as a software developer. In fact, we believe pretty strongly that every developer should have a mentor in the early part of their career. Here’s why.
A mentor is someone who is more experienced in a career field (like software development) who sets out specifically to form a relationship with someone less experienced. A mentor helps them learn important job skills and overcome common challenges in the field, but should also become a trusted advisor who can help set them on a path toward grother in all aspects of their life, both career and personal.
A relationship with a mentor should be long-term. And while the less-experienced developer in the relationship will reap the most benefit, a mentor-mentee relationship should be fulfilling for both parties, helping them both grow in different ways.
