[m0zg]

> they wanted a clearly delineated mentor

They may "want" that, but that's something I never got and I worked on-site for 20 years before I went remote 5 years ago. It's not like dedicated mentorship is common in non-remote work, and it's not like a remote junior employee would be denied mentorship if they ask. Most of my clients have junior employees, and they do reach out for help from time to time, and I encourage that. Nobody knows everything there is to know, not even senior people like me.

There's another aspect that's often ignored. Mentoring others just creates drag on your own career in most companies. It is not beneficial to the mentor at all. Nor is hosting an intern. So the smarter potential mentors avoid it, and you don't want to be mentored by the dumber ones anyway.