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Expand Up @@ -961,6 +961,7 @@ export const tracks: Tracks = {
displayName: "Mentorship",
category: "D",
summary: "Provides support to colleagues, spreads knowledge, and develops the team outside formal reporting structures",
description: "While Career Development is about formal planning, mentorship is equally important. We want to continue our culture of learning and teaching, and incentivise engineers to help develop each other, whether through internal posts, support groups, team presentations, programming curricula, or some other medium.",
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While Career Development is about formal planning, mentorship is equally important. We want to continue our culture of learning and teaching, and incentivise engineers to help develop each other, whether through internal posts, support groups, team presentations, programming curricula, or some other medium.

Personal or individual 1:1 mentorships could get a mention.

Career development is an endeavour focused on us.
Mentorship is actively helping others through their career development.

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Actually it's not as we currently define it. Only milestone 1 of career development is about developing your own career, but all the other milestones are about helping others develop their careers, including 1:1s. I think you could have mentorship-focused 1:1s, but that's not typically what we use them for.

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To clarify, I didn't mean 1:1 in the sense we have engineer/lead 1:1. I meant 1:1 as an individual focused mentorship. Someone comes to another engineer they respect to learn how to become a better programmer for example. They work out areas of improvement, set goals and devise a plan with regular catchups, pairing...
That would the individual focus in mentorship.
Then if you want to reach mentor more people, yes, you run classes, create material and guides...
For career development fair enough if only milestone 1 is focused on oneself. But if that means that the levels above are about helping others to pursue their own career aspirations, this should be more about enablement and coaching than mentoring. Otherwise we are gonna have another overlap problem between those track.
I realise we already had a lot of discussion about the boundaries of each categories and we are gonna have a lot more. The challenge for us is to manage to unblur the lines and make i clear for the users of the Snowflake as well.

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I think Career Development is one of those examples (like Wellbeing) where we've now learned - and should embrace - that a track is specific to a set of roles. You need to have direct reports to be able to do Career Dev level 2 and above, whereas I think Mentorship can be an IC thing all the way up (at least until level 4 - level 5 would be tricky as an IC).

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All good. I agree. Later it would be nice to put example(s) of personal mentorship for some of the levels.

milestones: [
{
summary: "Informally mentors individuals in an ad-hoc way, supports new hires, and conveys institutional knowledge",
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"Provides sound advice when asked"
],
examples: [
"Acted as an onboarding buddy",
"Acted as an onboarding buddy to a new hire",
"Paired with an engineer to help them with an unfamiliar area",
"Helped a colleague understand their feelings"
]
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"Creates lunch-n-learn series and lines up speakers"
],
examples: [
"Created and lead Vend's Frontend platform group",
"Created FEDs and led the FEDs Unite meeting",
"Organized an Eng All Hands with an outside speaker",
"Designed and taught Go microservices curriculum"
]
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