What Is The Mentorship Program?

The mentorship program aims to pair engineers together to support each other to enhance career growth, improve skills on the team and provide support for members of the team. Mentors and mentees meet bi-weekly (at a minimum, feel free to meet more regularly).

Program Goals

  1. Provide engineers with a mentor other than their manager who can help support their growth
  2. To enrich the team by spreading the knowledge and best practices of mentors
  3. To provide growth opportunities for mentors by giving back and growing expertise in their craft (building expertise through teaching)

What’s Expected of Mentors

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  1. Mentors should be partner engineers in good standing who have been at the company for at least 3 months

  2. Set up a bi-weekly (minimum) 30 minute 1:1 call with you mentee.

    1. Best practice is to create a shared 1:1 doc for these conversations so you can share links and keep track of progress.

  3. Your mentees will automatically receive requests for peer feedback. This will make it easier for you to be acknowledged for your partnership contributions

  4. For help setting up your mentorship check out HowTo: Set Up A Mentorship

What’s expected of Mentees

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  1. Take action on your Mentor’s feedback. Mentors are taking time to help guide you and your career, if they ask you to read something, work on something, etc. before the next time you meet with them follow through to get the most out of the mentorship relationship.
  2. Come to mentorship 1:1s ready to discuss challenges and areas for growth. If you come to a mentorship meeting with the feedback “everything’s fine, no problems” it’s going to be difficult for a mentor to help you. Prior to your mentoring meetings think back over the last couple of weeks, or think back over the time since you last met. What’s going well? What’s could go better? What are you struggling with? If you can articulate this information clearly it will be easier for a mentor to provide you with targeted feedback.