alt Hacker NewsYou likely don’t have a say in the matter, but you should have a junior developer. That’s where senior developers come from.
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andybak • 04/26/2025
You presume I work for a company!
You likely don’t have a say in the matter, but you should have a junior developer. That’s where senior developers come from.
You presume I work for a company!
Why should I have a junior developer who is going to do negative work instead of poaching a mid developer who is probably underpaid since salary compression and inversion are real?
As a manager, say I do hire a junior developer, invest time into them and they level up. I go to the HR department and tell them that they deserve a 30% raise to bring them inline with the other mid level developers.
The HR department is going to say that’s out of policy and then the developer jumps ship.