Comment by whateveracct
5 years ago
Exactly.
How many entry level engineers come onto a project per year? 5? Is onboarding them onto the project is a deliberate and streamlined way such an undue burden that you must change your programming style to avoid it?
It's not only about new hires. You will have to figure out things about code that you wrote 3/6/12 months ago.
But you can write code you can understand 12mo from now but have that same code be inscrutable to a new hire. Definitely different litmus tests.