Who Killed the Junior Developer?
&gt; we don’t hire junior developers because we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor them.<p>That feels too dumb to be real (which is exactly why it&#x27;s probably a real thing).<p>You don&#x27;t hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only &quot;just as fast&quot;, but probably faster too! You hire senior devs to guide you WHAT and HOW to code. And they can do that so much more effectively if they don&#x27;t have to actually code all that stuff themselves! &quot;Mentoring&quot; is basically <i>the</i> job you hire a senior dev to do... how can people say with a straight face that they can&#x27;t afford to let them do it?<p>I don&#x27;t view this as &quot;tragedy of the commons&quot; as other people here suggest. I view this as plain human stupidity (which we&#x27;re all guilty of, sometimes... it&#x27;s just good to realize when you&#x27;re being stupid before it seriously hurts you).