How can I support my fellow frontend developer to develop his skillsets, bring him up to speed, and help him evolve into a good engineer?
I run a small startup and I'm about to hire a new React frontend developer. He is a good engineer with the right attitude and can be trained for success. I firmly believe that you only need three things to gear up for any technology: documentation, mentorship, and most importantly, attitude. I want to gather all the necessary prerequisites to help him evolve into a better engineer, providing us with more quality code and better coding discipline. He is an engineer with 1 year of experience.
- Connect him with the UX/UI design team and build a strong rapport with the UX team.
- Allocate 2 weeks of time solely for learning the framework and existing documentation.
- Support him with any tools or training he needs (paid Udemy courses and free YouTube tutorials).
- Provide him with full flexibility to work from home.
- Mentorship: As a system architect and with my co-founder being a backend architect (Golang, C, C++), we lack a strong frontend mentor for him. Hence, I'm trying to gather information and crowdsource information from this sub
- Provide constructive feedback.
- Allocate a budget for him to buy paid components and whatnot.
Please chime in your thoughts guys.