Supporting Each Other: Growth for Juniors and Seniors

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Argues that hiring juniors is practical and beneficial: juniors bring motivation, fresh tech knowledge and flexibility while mentoring forces seniors to grow. Recommends concrete practices for onboarding and mentoring: follow project patterns like MVVM, repository, DI and Rx but teach one concept at a time, sketch architecture on paper, use pair programming at keyboard and human rubber‑duck debugging, timebox problems (for example timebox 4 hours), give constructive code review privately and praise publicly. Claims these steps speed learning and reduce churn.

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1. 0:00Welcome and introduction
2. 1:55Why hire juniors
3. 8:11Challenges for juniors
4. 12:37Manager expectations
5. 16:43Mentoring tips for seniors
6. 27:15Tips for junior growth
7. 33:50Benefits of mentoring juniors
8. 35:38Closing and thanks

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