Comment by dsr_

I think it's a major predictor for how pleasant it is for anyone to work at the company, and thus a long term morale and hiring issue.

This is the sort of situation that makes for a great conference talk on how companies react to disaster, and how the lessons learned can either set the company up for robust dependable systems or a series of cascading failures.

Unfortunately, the original junior dev was living the failure case. Fortunately, he has learned early in his career that he doesn't want to work for a company that blames the messenger.