> but what these people often need is someone to sit with them for a significant amount of time and demonstrate how one breaks a problem down, builds small piec

> but what these people often need is someone to sit with them for a significant amount of time and demonstrate how one breaks a problem down, builds small pieces that demonstrate functionality and then put those pieces together into a solution. And what if this is done repeatedly for the junior engineer, and yet any initiative they show after that is still negligible?