Practise the collocations used when mentoring, coaching, and giving feedback to junior developers.
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The senior engineer agreed to ___ two junior developers who had just joined the team.
Mentor a developer is the standard professional development collocation. 'Teacher' is a noun, not a verb. 'Parent' and 'lead over' are not used in this professional context.
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A staff engineer was assigned to ___ the new hire through their first architecture decision.
Guide someone (through a process) is the natural mentoring collocation. 'Walk ahead' implies physical movement. 'Escort through' is more formal and used in security contexts. 'Direct at' is ungrammatical in this sense.
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The junior developer was allowed to ___ the principal engineer during the client discovery call.
Shadow someone is the established professional term for observational learning — you shadow a colleague to learn from them directly. 'Follow around' is informal. 'Copy' implies duplication. 'Watch over' means to supervise, not to learn.
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The team lead scheduled a 1:1 to ___ the junior developer on their recent code review performance.
Give feedback to someone is the standard collocation in professional settings. 'Tell feedback' is ungrammatical. 'Speak back to' implies a response/argument. 'Comment at' is not a valid English phrase.
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Two engineers from different teams were matched to ___ on a greenfield microservice.
Pair on a project (from pair programming) is the accepted engineering mentoring collocation. 'Team up together' is redundant. 'Couple on' is not standard. 'Joint-work' is not a recognized English verb phrase.