[jleyank]

I would think that relying on folks straight from school or from 4-ish years of hacking is very risky when it comes to more complex products. Unless you retain some of those expensive, grumpy, possibly-now-remote designers...

EDIT: debugging skills are earned through experience, not taught.

[mmmeff]

You’d think… I’m definitely seeing a trend towards less experienced hires at inflated positions at the tech giants. It’s something they’ve fought off for a while but seem to be losing the battle. The “senior” engineer from a company of 3 with 2 years of experience behind them post-bootcamp has finally made it into the big leagues.

The amount of production outages we’re starting to see across Azure/GCP/AWS is telling if you ask me.

[native_samples]

They've been going that way for a long time because it was the only way to keep up headcount growth after their initial growth phase pulled in all the experienced people who were already willing to move.

Even when I was there, the number of inexperienced grads who had never known anything except Google was growing rapidly. And they unfortunately seemed much more prone to bizarre outbursts, bad behavior and extremism of various kinds. They took where they worked for granted.