Ask HN: How do you help junior devs improve faster?
For some context, I run a self-funded consultancy and I have about 5 years of experience in marketing and another 5 years of experience in programming. Over the years, I'm able to help onboard junior marketers & junior designers to be productive by the 3rd month. Enough that they get fantastic results for our clients and they also get better career opportunities by the 3rd or 4th year (1.5x-2x pay than what I can afford as a self-funded company). While this is somewhat a problem for me, I'm confident with our marketing & design training program. But for the life of me, I can't figure junior devs. I've been training this one guy for 2 years and still can't keep up. I've also hired another guy and he's a bit better, but he doesn't follow coding standards and still cannot ship good code. For the SaaS that we are building, while I thought that
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For some context, I run a self-funded consultancy and I have about 5 years of experience in marketing and another 5 years of experience in programming. Over the years, I'm able to help onboard junior marketers & junior designers to be productive by the 3rd month. Enough
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- productized
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews