An intern joined my team, he is energetic and eager to learn. However, I observed his mentor is not guiding the intern properly. I told the intern to be more assertive in case he feels he isn't being supported properly, but I think he's just nervous, which is anyhow normal for interns. The main problem here is, without the proper guidance, the intern stands no chance of completing his project, to no fault of his own.
I thought about bringing it up to our manager, but complaining would get me into a political mess, since the mentor and the manager are long-time work buddies and I'm just a lowly SDE-1.
What should I do in this case?
It's kind of like watching a ship sinking in slow motion. And I feel really badly about it, even though it's technically none of my business.
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All but one engineer who did poorly on our team/leaves were great! The issue is having Amazon as a first experience at full-scale software development, working in the cloud, using internal tools etc without support..
The truly great ICs do manage through; however, far too many perfectly good engineers drop Amazon/do poorly because itโs overwhelming and they donโt have a good base/support network to rely on.