How to mentor software engineers
One thing I sometimes point out to software engineers Im tasked with mentoring at work is the importance of showing other engineers that you care about the code and the questions you're asking via slack etc by proof reading what you write and reviewing your own code before reaching out to others for help. The frustration of reading ia garbled slack message or pulling over to look at a code snippet and realizing the person didn't even look over it themselves is real and has real negative consequences in terms of professional perception.<p>Like when someone misspells radical candor in the second sentence of a blog post about mentoring.<p>Seriously though, everybody makes mistakes but when I do slip up like this I don't expect people to engage with what I'm writing. And I do think proof reading is an incredibly important skill for new and experienced software engineers.<p>[edit] I just noticed the author is a staff engineer at MongoDB. He can misspell whatever he wants. I recant my sassiness.