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You can ignore pretty much everything I wrote underneath, but if one thing, I feel like this video really helped me as a senior engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6G8f9pZZRM&t=1594s

Don't see them as a 'nuisance' or something that's not "part of your job". As a senior developer, it is at least implicitly part of your job to mentor junior developers.

It helps to really take out time to help them, I schedule some sessions in which they can ask anything about anything related to programming. The language we are working in, the program we work on, general computer science questions. This has received quite positive feedback overall.

Often junior developers are scared to ask questions because they 'know' they are 'wasting' your time with their questions.



I was going to post a link to that video, too. Great talk!




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