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Mentors, Mentees, and Becoming an Expert

Explore how engaging openly in public tech spaces helps you attract mentors, become a mentor yourself, and ultimately grow into an expert. Understand the value of picking up tasks from experienced engineers, learning through collaboration, and sharing knowledge to build your career and confidence as a software engineer.

Pick up what they put down

Experts notice genuine learners. They’ll want to help you. Don’t tell them; they just became your mentors. This is so important that I’m repeating it: pick up what they put down.

Think of them as offering up quests for you to complete. When they say, “Anyone willing to help with __ __?”, you’re that kid in ...