Hot take: Working from home hasn't killed mentoring. It DID expose that most senior engineers don't actually know how to teach. It’s easy to mentor someone when they can just look over your shoulder at a desk, but doing it remotely requires intentionality, documentation, and actual communication skills. A lot of seniors are complaining about junior velocity right now because they can no longer rely on proximity to hide their lack of structured guidance. Am I being unfair?

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not unfair at all. the shoulder-tap was never mentoring, it was just convenient availability. remote forces you to actually write things down, create reusable context, explain your reasoning instead of just showing. those are better teaching skills and the teams that figured this out have juniors ramping faster than they did in the office.

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