45 Stories To Learn About Mentorship

Let's learn about Mentorship via these 45 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. ADPList Matches Laid-Off Designers with Mentors for Free

ADPLIst is a free community that matches designers and mentors. The new platform has more than 5,000 designers and mentors.

2. A Look Into my Writing Process: Interview With Serhii Rubets, Full-Stack Software Engineer

This is a small interview with Serhii Rubets, a Fullstack JS Engineer with 7 years of experience.

3. What Questions Should I Ask My Startup Advisor?

Confused about how to ask bold questions to your soon-to-be advisor? This article will fire you up in 6 minutes. Promise!

4. How To Ask For Feedback As a New Software Developer

One of the best ways to grow as a software developer is by frequently asking for feedback from the people you work closely with.

5. What's The Most Important Skill for a Senior Developer?

I often get asked what I think is the most important skill for a software developer.

6. A Q&A with MongoDB's Marcus Eagan on Developer Mentorship & Building a More Equitable World

Hear Marcus Eagan's story - Staff Product Manager at MongoDB and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

7. Asking Questions Makes You Look Smarter

Junior developers are afraid of looking dumb. They think that seeming stupid will hinder their career progression. Nothing could be further from the truth.

8. Teaching is Learning: 5 Perks of a Two-Way Knowledge Transfer

In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

9. How Mentorship and Reading Through 100,000+ LoC Made Me a Better Human Being

There’s more to code than the code

10. Leading By Letting Go. How To Quit Disturbing Your Engineering Team From Growing

In this article, Taras Lazoriv, Advanced Software Engineer at Innovecs, shares his leadership experience and thoughts on growing an engineering team.

11. How to Find a Great Mentor to Advance Faster in Your Career

If you are looking for opportunities to advance faster in your career, mentorship and executive sponsorship may be for you.

12. Getting a Mentor: Is it Worth It?

I’ve learned a lot in the last year. In April 2018 I coded a small project called “MentorCruise”. Since then, 130 mentors have registered, 400 mentorships were formed and 2,000 people signed up. Time to look back.

13. Learning the art of Informational Interviews : Best Practices

How to prepare and execute informational interviews to land a job faster.

14. Why Communication is Important for Software Developers

In this article you will learn different approaches you can use to improve your communication skills as a software developer.

15. [Everyday Tech Solutions] Turning Feedback Data into Actionable Advice

If you're working on something that users actually use, then you're most likely also acquiring data en masse. When it comes to free text feedback, this data might get lost or stay in the hands of some analysts. How to take a few easy steps, to turn that data into actionable steps instead.

16. Why Developer Advocates Are on the Rise

Working as an educator in tech is very much an exercise in branding. If you define yourself as a trainer then clients assume you don’t really know what you’re talking about. But present yourself as a nerdy developer and they will assume you can’t teach. So you learn to strike a balance between the extremes with good humour and a healthy dose of humility.

17. There is More to Experience in Life than Work: Interview With Edward Aslin - Technical Lead

Meet Edward Aslin, a Technical Director and Developer from North Wales.

18. Top 3 Online Mentoring Platforms For Startups

Stop passive learning and hack your growth with a mentor

19. How to Get the Most from Your Programming Mentor-Mentee Relationship

Having access to a more experienced programmer who wants to help you grow professionally can speed up your progress. How can you get the most from your mentor?

20. A Q&A With Learnfully's Suchi Deshpande on Listening Skills & Life Beyond the Job Description

Hear Suchi Deshpande's story, co-founder of Learnfully and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

21. How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome as a Software Engineer?

In my short stint as a software engineer, I've always been incredibly lucky with the people surrounding me.

22. A Q&A With Virtual Coffee's Bekah Hawrot Weigel, on Creating & Finding Community

Hear Bekah Hawrot Weigel's story - Virtual Coffee Creator and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

Bekah is the Creator and Technical Community Build

23. A Q&A With Slack's Rukmini Reddy on Data-Driven Mentorship, Career Paths, and Belonging

Hear Rukmini Reddy's story - Slack SVP of Engineering and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

24. Why Should a Programmer be a Mentor?

The idea of mentoring is to provide gratuitous assistance to the mentee, therefore, on the one hand, few highly qualified specialists are ready for this.

25. What is Reverse Mentoring?

Reverse mentoring occurs when young people become mentors of executives to guide them on various topics of strategic and cultural relevance.

26. A Self-Learner’s Guide to Combating UX Research & Design Misinformation

UX education is saturated and it has become increasingly difficult to filter out the bad sources. Here’s how we can fix that.

27. Your Superpower: Change What You Control

We focus so much on external change - getting approval from executives or people on other teams. To enact real change, focus on what you can control.

28. Mentor Vs. Developer: The Best Option to Hire When You Want to Launch Your Dream Project

Mentor or Developer: The best option when you want to kickstart your dream project or your career in coding.

29. Mentors Are Like Magic Mushrooms

I explain why mentors are like magic mushrooms and share six of the main ways that getting a mentor can help you develop professionally and personally.

30. Remote IT Mentoring and How to Use it for Effective Collaboration

I’ve been mentoring people for IT roles for a long time. At first, these were friends or work colleagues who were asking me some job-related questions.

31. My Best Employees Keep Leaving and I Know I'm The Reason

I keep losing my best employees. I know I'm the reason, but I refuse to change. So how do I screw up my best people? I challenge and provide them with feedback.

32. Why it's Tough to Be a Mentor

Mentorship is not about teaching someone algorithms, recommending the "right books", or giving them tasks to solve. It's about people

33. 4 Ways to Elevate Each Other's Work as Women In Tech

Rise in women entrepreneurship has been quite vivid in the past few years as we keep establishing organizations and move on to own an empire. While many have achieved success in establishing their identity as a founder, many others are struggling to get known to the world.

34. Bridging the Gap Between Technical & Non-technical Teams

To a certain extent, this gap is caused by a relatively low priority that soft skills are given among tech employees.

35. What Whiplash Teaches Us About the "Sink or Swim" Method in Engineering

I love movies - Particularly ones that can be referenced to bring a point home in a professional discussion. Such is the case with the movie “Whiplash” and the debate over the “sink or swim” methodology in engineer onboarding.

36. How Being A Mentor Can Be A Double Edged Sword

Photo by James Pond on Unsplash

37. Coding Mentor: Why You Should Become One and How to Do It

Hi! My name is Oleg Sklyarov, I work as a team leader of kids mobile development at Skyeng. In my free time, I mentor IT students. It’s been a great experience for me, so I want to share my story and insights I got from it.

38. A Q&A With Ashwin Kumar Uppala, Coach at Major League Hacking, on "Learning in Public" for New Devs

Hear Ashwin Kumar Uppala's story - Coach at Major League Hacking and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree

39. Virtual Open Day 2021: Mentoring Over 150 Brilliant Students Virtually

On 20th of February 2021 at CodeChem we organized the third Virtual Open Day, which many of us will remember for a long time.

40. Software Engineer Remi Denoyer’s Curiosity Propelled His Career at Mentoring Platform Plato

Remi Denoyer learned to code and built his first basic application at the age of 14. He was the perfect founding engineer for Plato, a mentorship platform.

41. Experiencing the Magic of a ‘Mentor Moment’

Experiencing the Magic of a ‘Mentor Moment’

42. Hack Your Way to Knowledge and Growth with a Mentor

Mentorship is a great way to hack your way to knowledge & speed up your career progression without cutting corners or having to make your own costly mistakes.

43. Emotionally Intelligent Entrepreneurs Should Have These Traits

Traits of an Emotionally Intelligent Entrepreneur

44. What do Spielberg and Zuckerberg Have in Common?

Recently on the Success Story podcast, I had the pleasure of meeting one of America’s greatest business authors – and not just the greatest, but the youngest in U.S. history.

45. An Insider’s View of Working at a Walk-Up TechBar

My experience mentoring interns in the Help Desk works and at a walk-up TechBar who were part of the Genesys Works program.

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