# Plan 90 days of mentoring for a junior engineer

Creates a structured mentoring plan with goals, stretch tasks, review habits, and check-ins that help a junior engineer grow fast.

- Topic: Leadership & Management
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Coding, Analyze, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/plan-90-days-of-mentoring-for-a-junior-engineer

## Prompt

```text
Help me plan how to mentor a junior engineer over the next 90 days.

**Their background:** [EXPERIENCE, LANGUAGES, WHAT THEY'VE SHIPPED SO FAR]
**Strengths I've noticed:** [SPECIFIC EXAMPLES]
**Growth areas:** [e.g. "asks for help too late", "PRs too large", "unfamiliar with testing", "unsure in design discussions"]
**Their own goals:** [WHAT THEY SAID THEY WANT - or "not discussed yet"]
**My time available:** [e.g. "1 hour per week plus code reviews"]
**Team context:** [STACK, UPCOMING PROJECTS THEY COULD JOIN]

Build the plan:
1. **Goals:** 3 concrete, observable goals for 90 days (e.g. "ships a feature end to end with fewer than 2 review rounds"), linked to their growth areas and their own goals.
2. **Work assignments:** a sequence of real tasks that stretch them gradually, from well-scoped to more ambiguous, with what each one teaches.
3. **Rituals:** a format for weekly 1:1s, pairing sessions, and how I'll use code review as teaching (explaining the why, asking questions, letting them find the fix).
4. **Specific techniques** for each growth area, e.g. a "stuck for 30 minutes, then ask" rule, a PR size target, writing a short plan before coding.
5. **Check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days:** what to look at and the questions to ask.
6. **Pitfalls for me as a mentor:** rescuing too fast, rewriting their code, giving vague feedback.

Return the plan as a week-by-week overview table plus a first-1:1 agenda to kick it off together.
```

## What to fill in

- EXPERIENCE, LANGUAGES, WHAT THEY'VE SHIPPED SO FAR
- SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
- WHAT THEY SAID THEY WANT - or "not discussed yet"
- e.g. "1 hour per week plus code reviews"
- STACK, UPCOMING PROJECTS THEY COULD JOIN

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