ALTWhat you’re asking about feels rather a lot like [finding a mentor] – a extra skilled dev who may help the much less skilled dev degree up and enhance extra shortly. Should you’re working in sport dev already, it’s fairly uncommon to go cross-studio until the venture itself is so huge that it’s a cross-studio collaboration (e.g. Name of Responsibility, Battlefront, and so on.). It’s because a junior dev is often already working inside a group that can have extra skilled devs who’re each accustomed to the junior’s duties and with the venture context. A mentor at an exterior studio would possibly have the ability to assist in a extra normal sense however received’t be as capable of present extra particular steerage with out ample understanding of the work the junior is doing.
ALTWhen a junior dev reached out to me for mentorship, I don’t count on a lot in return – actually not any type of materials compensation. I count on engagement, self-reflection, and a willingness to study from mentees. I’ve tried working with mentees previously who didn’t present a lot curiosity in studying from me in any respect. I’ve labored with mentees who didn’t appear engaged – they’d skip conferences, they’d give minimal solutions to my questions, and so forth. I don’t wish to waste my time or effort attempting to mentor somebody who doesn’t wish to be there. My purpose as a mentor isn’t (simply) to stroke the junior’s ego or do the work for them, it’s to assist them degree up by displaying them extra to contemplate than their present view of the scenario. If I’m not serving to them degree up, it’s a waste of their time and mine.
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