Also, senior engineers should spend time mentoring junior engineers. The craftsman/apprentice model is particularly applicable here. All too often, employers assign fresh graduates to a project without having senior engineers properly guide them. Although they may be eager and energetic, the students' inexperience often leads them to mediocre code. Senior engineering staff should carefully review their work and explain why certain options are better than others for the project. By reviewing the students' code and showing them how to improve it, senior engineers can help inexperienced programmers become great programmers.