[bobbytherobot]

Before people take and run with this comment, this will turn into a shit show if you don't have actual senior programmers with the needed experience. I've seen it happen in startups where their "senior programmer" has only been working for three years out of school for the single startup.

[falcolas]

This is absolutely the truth, and based on my experiences, absolutely a problem. New graduates are promoted through the ranks at startups so quickly, yet they have terrible interpersonal skills, and their code reeks of naivety.

I've watched an "architect" from such a company write the most tangled spaghetti western of code for the simplest CRUD app that even his lower level colleagues were appalled. Of course, those same colleagues then advocated a complete re-write of the working codebase instead of incrementally fixing the code, causing about 6 months of new work for the company before they could start on hardening or new features...

No, experience doesn't automatically make you right, but it does increase the likelihood.

[gjolund]

While I understand where you are coming from, I don't see how your comment adds anything to the conversation.

If you don't have senior staff then you are going to have a host of other problems as well.