I was fine with mentoring junior developers until my manager decided pair programming was the way to go. I’m happy to help and teach, but like fuck am I going to sit at the same goddamn computer with some maroon all day. Can’t even power-nap properly.
Honestly pair programming I feel works better with more similar abilities than far off. Also give em a task to let them struggle a bit in the beginning of the sprint.
I was fine with mentoring junior developers until my manager decided pair programming was the way to go. I’m happy to help and teach, but like fuck am I going to sit at the same goddamn computer with some maroon all day. Can’t even power-nap properly.
Pair programing with a mentor shouldn’t be a day to day thing. Like why waste the time and put so much pressure on the trainee like that anyways?
Honestly pair programming I feel works better with more similar abilities than far off. Also give em a task to let them struggle a bit in the beginning of the sprint.
The entire reason we developed git was so nobody would ever have to pair program again.
Does he also request you write the code on paper first?
Lol I haven’t coded on paper first since I started programming … in the '70s on my friend’s Commodore-20.