I’ve written some advice on how to mentor junior developers inspired by the talks @brightonruby I would really appreciate your thoughts on what works for you!

@sarahmei @nodunayo @vaidehijoshi #brightonrubyhttps://link.medium.com/1nK0pwu35X
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Replying to @a_adewusi @brightonruby and
One of the things I found was good when I was a junior (and try to use now I am mentoring some) is to in code review ask questions, instead of informing that “x is wrong” to say “it looks like here you are doing {thing that looks incorrect} is this correct / intended?”
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Replying to @Andysomniac @a_adewusi and
I think the sentiment is right, but the question can come across as passive aggressive. I don’t think you should ask questions unless you’re interested in the answer. Instead of ‘x is wrong’ I would try to go with ‘x causes y, which would be a problem because…’
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Replying to @jcinnamond @a_adewusi and
Agree, tweet cut down what I could say meaning it came across a bit passive aggressive in initial post, sorry
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Also most of the time I am interested in how they got to this point, to try and work out if it is something I had not done correctly when explaining business case / bit they were working on
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