How To Prepare a Junior Dev for Promotion

Preparing someone for promotion shouldn't start with asking them to guess what senior people want. They need clear expectations and opportunities to demonstrate the work those expectations describe.

I try to give feedback while there's still time to act on it, and help collect examples along the way. Quietly doing good work shouldn't make somebody harder to recognise. Nor should promotion depend on taking on an unsustainable amount of extra work.