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The reward of growing junior engineers

How to develop and invest in your early-career teammates.
May 11, 2021

Do you see growing your junior engineers as an investment or a time suck?

My first engineering job out of college was with a government contractor. I was by far the youngest person on a team of career veterans. We were all working together to build, well, something. The actual project was classified, and none of us had clearances, so we all built very generic ‘services’ that would quite literally be transported to a secure facility to be deployed as part of a larger system.

On my first day, I was assigned to work on the file service. I felt woefully lost.

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