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Scale Engineering Teams While Mentoring Leads

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Your engineering organization is growing quickly, and you need to increase delivery capacity without losing quality, team health, or leadership depth. You are expected to grow the team, create a structure that can handle rising demand, and mentor engineers and technical leads so they can take on more ownership as the organization scales.

Question

How would you develop and scale engineering teams to meet growing demands while mentoring engineers and technical leads?