[botskonet]

Exactly. I would rather take a first-semester web development student who shows those foundational bright spots than a 20-year developer who does this as a 9-to-5 job.

I work with people who did things their own way for 10+ years, never worked as team, never kept up with a quickly changing industry, never improved their skills, that now they're opinionated, they feel that as long as something works it's good to go, etc.

Introducing them to a code review workflow exposed how truly uneducated they were. Code review turned into education sessions, explaining how fundamentally they've misunderstood or misused CSS, javascript, or the tools we use.

It's dramatic how much money and time is wasted because no one with authority to fire them wants to. Back when I ran my own studio I let people go the instant it became clear they weren't going to make it, but these people couldn't pass a simple interview with me.

My company sees it but keeps trying to find ways to solve the problem. You can't throw training at it, you can't throw more meetings.