Mentorship is usually treated like a one-way transfer: seniors teach, juniors absorb. However, that model doesn’t scale, it quietly reinforces hierarchy, and it wastes a big opportunity: seniors learning faster because juniors see different tools, different defaults, and different problems.

This session is about two-way mentorship: a lightweight loop where every meeting has an explicit outbound half (senior to junior: decision-making, feedback, tradeoffs) and an explicit inbound half (junior to senior: new tools, modern practices, better questions). Not a formal program. Not “be nice to juniors.” Just a practical system that plugs into real engineering work: PRs, debugging, design tradeoffs, and incident follow-ups.

You’ll learn how to run mentorship sessions that produce two outcomes every time: junior growth and senior growth, by design. The outbound half builds capability in the junior. The inbound half keeps the senior current. Same meeting. Same timebox. Both directions.