There’s a lot to be said about this comment, but I’ll stick to two things.
1) it’s a waste of resources for seniors to be doing the work that the juniors and 2s can do. Hunting down infrequent or low priority bugs, fixing small layout issues, etc. they’re perfect for someone paid less and growing and learning the codebase.
There is *always* plenty of junior-ready work and the day a week of work to schedule, prep and help those juniors to do it pays dividends.
2) a Junior leaving because you won’t pay them, have a toxic culture or won’t give them a promotion when it’s time speaks more about a broken company culture and one of a style that’s rampant in the tech industry and business at large than it does about loyalty and willingness for the employee to stay at the company.
Good leadership and skilled organizers can easily solve the problems you’ve listed; and, even better, create a culture of longevity for all the employees at a company, not just the juniors.
Speaking as someone that has worked for companies that give a shit about their workers and who helped raise me up from a low SDE.
> it’s a waste of resources for seniors to be doing the work that the juniors and 2s can do. Hunting down infrequent or low priority bugs, fixing small layout issues, etc.
These are tasks that in the current environment often get pushed back for "later" indefinitely. These tasks aren't un-resourced because the company isn't hiring juniors, the company isn't hiring juniors because they no longer have the funds for small fixes.
As a customer of these types of businesses: yes, we can tell. We do care, and we are ready to drop the shitty products of these bad companies at the first opportunity.
The issue is not that companies don't have the funds to chase these bugs (which will impact future trust/revenue), it's that they don't want to spend it chasing these bugs. Next quarter thinking leads to bad software.
The problem with this idea is that being bug free and jank free is the moat that a mature app needs. Software lives on user trust. If everyone can see that the simple things aren't being done right, why will they have faith that the complex things are?
1) it’s a waste of resources for seniors to be doing the work that the juniors and 2s can do. Hunting down infrequent or low priority bugs, fixing small layout issues, etc. they’re perfect for someone paid less and growing and learning the codebase.
There is *always* plenty of junior-ready work and the day a week of work to schedule, prep and help those juniors to do it pays dividends.
2) a Junior leaving because you won’t pay them, have a toxic culture or won’t give them a promotion when it’s time speaks more about a broken company culture and one of a style that’s rampant in the tech industry and business at large than it does about loyalty and willingness for the employee to stay at the company.
Good leadership and skilled organizers can easily solve the problems you’ve listed; and, even better, create a culture of longevity for all the employees at a company, not just the juniors.
Speaking as someone that has worked for companies that give a shit about their workers and who helped raise me up from a low SDE.