Practical Junior Friendly Teams - Yaniv Preiss

Junior friendly simply means accepting a junior in the team and setting them up for success, whether fresh after studying or with a few years of experience.

Being a junior means they have little knowledge about being an employee, what teamwork looks like, how goals are set, and lack relevant functional knowledge. That’s why they usually need to be told not only what to do, but also how to do.

In a junior friendly environment, they learn and become more and more productive, bring more and more value, need less and less support. They thrive as they meaningfully contribute and can see themselves becoming an expert in the industry.

The opposite of a junior friendly environment is intimidating, threatening, insulting, giving only negative feedback, setting unrealistic expectations and eventually making them doubt continuing in this profession.

Go back in time – how did you start? You were junior once, and you either made it the friendly way or the hard way. Which one is more effective and pleasant?

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