Technical Mentoring and Team Development Questions

Covers approaches to growing engineering capability through mentorship, coaching, and structured development. Includes identifying high potential talent, running one on ones, providing actionable feedback, designing personalized development plans, and using coaching techniques such as pair programming, shadowing, and graduated responsibility. Discusses differences in developing junior, mid level, and senior engineers, setting career ladders and promotion criteria, creating knowledge transfer practices and documentation, enabling technical leadership, and fostering an environment where teams can solve complex problems autonomously. Also covers metrics of success for development programs, mentoring program scalability, and strategies for retaining and promoting internal talent.