Comment by sodapopcan

Pairing gets a lot of hate and is very misunderstood. It can be terrible, though, if the org doesn't encourage and teach it. There are also lots of things about pairing that are misunderstood, especially that things take more time.

I was on a team that paired all the time and it's sort of ruined me for anything else. We switched pairs daily and everyone would pair with everyone else (on the team). When a junior joined the team they would very quickly lose their junior status.