Coaching
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The practice of helping people improve skills, judgment, or performance through feedback, questioning, and structured support. In engineering culture coaching is especially valuable when growth depends on habits and thinking, not just information transfer.
In plain English: Helping someone improve through guidance and feedback over time.
Example: "The staff engineer spent more time on coaching than coding during the quarter because the team needed better decision-making, not just more output."