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How to find and become a great engineering mentor

Mentoring is a great way to boost your career. Here's everything you need to know about getting a mentor, and becoming one yourself.

By Addy Osmani

October 10, 2022

Mentoring is a great way to boost your career. Here’s everything you need to know about getting a mentor, and becoming one yourself.

Mentorship is all about lifting up others. It’s about listening, and sharing knowledge, advice, and perspectives based on your own experience, to help someone reach their maximum potential in an area.

Mentoring can make a huge difference to the careers and lives of mentees, and can offer a lot of benefits for mentors, too. Throughout my years as an engineering manager, I’ve realized that mentorship is a two-way street. Both parties improve, as individual contributors or as leaders, and learn to see things from a different perspective.

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