Given at QCon NY 2014

1. Mentoring Engineers and Humans
NY 2014
Daniel Doubrovkine
@dblockdotorg!
artsy.net

3. 3 Designers
3 Art Liaisons
5 Engineers

5. • Fellowship Program
• Full Time Program Manager
• Outside of Career Services

6. Campus Visits!
Princeton, Harvard, MIT, CMU, Stanford
!
CS Data Set from PeopleCo!
Berkeley, University of Washington, Yale, Cornell, UCLA, USCD,
Duke, Dartmouth
!
Data Set from Resume Books!
Arts: Harvard, Columbia, Brown
Design: Hyper Island, CMU, School for Visual Arts
!
Artsy HQ Event!
Columbia, Barnard, SVA, NYU, Hunter

8. Tell the Story

9. Purpose
Investment
Paid Internship
Experience
Selection
Outcome
Schedule

10. Go Get Them

11. “Getting the strongest people at any level and
keeping them is the single hardest thing in any
organization.”

12. * actual interns not pictured

13. Pick mentors amongst experienced,
pragmatic & patient people.

14. Teach them mentorship.

15. Teach them responsibility.

16. Unlike management, mentorship is putting
people’s goals first, before their work.

17. Mentees have some domain knowledge, but
have no idea what to do or how to behave.

18. Create an environment for success.

19. Set expectations.

20. Set goals.

21. Foster ownership and trust.

22. Make them a priority.

23. Advertise your mentee.

24. Praise your mentee.

25. Learn from your mentee.

26. Create long-lasting relationships.

27. “My favorite mentee was a student in a formal program
many years ago. He is now my manager and we have
an amazing working relationship.”

28. Mentoring is not for everyone.

29. Coach - Teacher - Student
"Be the worst guy in every band you're in." –Pat Metheny

30. Daniel Doubrovkine
@dblockdotorg!
code.dblock.org!
artsy.net
Questions?