GeeCON 2023: Stanisław Tokarski - Od zbuntowanego indywidualisty, który wymyśla koło na nowo...

When I joined a large corp while inactive being a student, I was not enthusiastic about the thought of working with a mentor on a regular basis. I considered it infeasible to put my full trust into a individual to whom I was assigned alternatively randomly. I preferred to search for my own growth direction and plan my career way myself, blindly. Everything changed after a fewer years, erstwhile I myself was to become a mentor for people starting their careers as programmers. Wanting to prepare myself for this function as thoroughly as possible, I realized how crucial and essential mentoring actually was. During my talk, I will share my experiences as both a student and a mentor, as well as summarize all the crucial facts about the art of mentoring that I have learned over the years.