Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library

Comment by hodgesrm

12 hours ago

That sounds like a bad hire, not a junior. Why didn’t your manager help fix that?

3 comments

hodgesrm

Reply

rsynnott  11 hours ago

I gather that quite a lot of companies are using dumb metrics which would show this as _good_ behaviour, these days.

  • lokar  11 hours ago

    Sure, but the overriding metric should be the opinion of the Sr engineer who is supposed to be mentoring and supervising the Jr

    • rsynnott  11 hours ago

      You'd hope, but, y'know, AI mania.

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities