> Translation: Your mentee is complaining about you being a huge asshole.
That seems too harsh a conclusion given the scant evidence provided.
That said, this part stood out to me as potentially troubling:
> mentoring is an essential part of being a senior engineer, and this teammate seemed to be benefiting from it
Learning by way of a mentorship is an essential part of being a junior engineer. That doesn't imply that all senior engineers must mentor junior engineers. And it definitely does not require or even suggest that senior engineers should seek out junior engineers for potential mentorship (nor even make casual offers for informal mentorship for that matter).
Further, the language the author uses in the description is vague as to who requested the mentorship in the first place. It's also vague as to whether the company actually approved or encouraged such a formal mentorship.
That seems too harsh a conclusion given the scant evidence provided.
That said, this part stood out to me as potentially troubling:
> mentoring is an essential part of being a senior engineer, and this teammate seemed to be benefiting from it
Learning by way of a mentorship is an essential part of being a junior engineer. That doesn't imply that all senior engineers must mentor junior engineers. And it definitely does not require or even suggest that senior engineers should seek out junior engineers for potential mentorship (nor even make casual offers for informal mentorship for that matter).
Further, the language the author uses in the description is vague as to who requested the mentorship in the first place. It's also vague as to whether the company actually approved or encouraged such a formal mentorship.