What I've done with junior devs and interns in the past was to assign them easier tasks with clear guidelines to get them going on a project along with some learning exercises, such as documenting a particular module of the like.
It's really good if the organization uses Agile where they can establish good starter user stories and spikes to ease a new person, experienced or junior, into the cadence of the team and set them up for success. Also, pair programming, even if not a all-the-time thing, can help as well.
In interviewing, I'd recommend she ask about how they organize their work and what a typical day would be like. If the answers are vague or disheartening, maybe keep looking for a different organization.
hey that's great! I think Junior developers can get really easily overwhelmed and that makes work much harder than it needs to be. Giving them clear-cut projects and deadlines is a wonderful way to get them contributing and exploring the codebase early.
I still think back to jobs where I wasn't a junior dev but was new to enormous codebases, and my work was a similar deal: lots of smaller projects that did not require in-depth knowledge of the entire system.
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What I've done with junior devs and interns in the past was to assign them easier tasks with clear guidelines to get them going on a project along with some learning exercises, such as documenting a particular module of the like.
It's really good if the organization uses Agile where they can establish good starter user stories and spikes to ease a new person, experienced or junior, into the cadence of the team and set them up for success. Also, pair programming, even if not a all-the-time thing, can help as well.
In interviewing, I'd recommend she ask about how they organize their work and what a typical day would be like. If the answers are vague or disheartening, maybe keep looking for a different organization.
hey that's great! I think Junior developers can get really easily overwhelmed and that makes work much harder than it needs to be. Giving them clear-cut projects and deadlines is a wonderful way to get them contributing and exploring the codebase early.
I still think back to jobs where I wasn't a junior dev but was new to enormous codebases, and my work was a similar deal: lots of smaller projects that did not require in-depth knowledge of the entire system.