Comment by throwway120385
3 days ago
I've never had a junior dev be a "net negative." Maybe you're just not supervising or mentoring them at all? The first thing I tell all new hires under me is that their job is to solve more problems than they create, and so far it's worked out.
I’ve had interns be a net negative, I’ve had Juniors be a net negative, I’ve had Seniors be a net negative and even managers!
Turns out some people suck, but most of them don’t suck.
But by definition, junior developers with no experience are going to need more handholding and tale time away from experience developers.
> junior developers with no experience are going to need more handholding
Unlike AI, which gives me fake methods, broken code, and wrong advice with full confidence.
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Truly depends on the organization and systems. I’m at a small firm with too few Senior staff, lots of fire-fighting going on among us, etc. We have loads of low-hanging fruit for our Juniors so we tend to have very quick results after an initial onboarding.