| I don't agree with you. You can't fix people who cannot learn because of their belief that they already know everything. They will take anything personally that goes in the way of their ego. For examle, take a react web developer - that only knows React, who think that the React way is the only way, read some blogs written by a junior programmer - and take it as a truth. 2015 : Class components is the React way
2016 : Functional component is the React way - don't use context
2017 : Use Context - that's the React way
2018 : Write CSS in Javascript
... and the list goes on. Now, good luck explaining to that dev that he basically doesn't knows how to think by himself, and because he thinks that he already knows EVERYTHING - he won't listen - or even learn by his own critical and common sense judgment. Those type of developers are very toxic, they are VERY vocal about how exceptional they think they are, and they will discard the opinion of anyone better than them - just because it doesn't fit their opinion of themself. They will stay mediocre - no matter what. Drop The team, fire everyone, and instead of replacing them with same crap, hire a 5x dev. So let's say you have 5 crap shit toxic dev, producing spaguetti technical debt - paid 100k/year. Fire them all, and hire 2 real senior devs at 250k$/y each. And Rewrite the whole stack.
It will be faster on the long term. Also, there is nothing worse for a good dev to work with existing shit code - spend 3 months trying to refactor the code - introduce regression bugs while doing it - and deal with poor technical choices - while at the same time they could rewrite the whole project in a more elegant and stable way in the same amount of time. |
At least they read blog posts and spend some time learning. They might be better material that senior that did 10 years of same Java Spring.
> Fire them all, and hire 2 real senior devs at 250k$/y each. And Rewrite the whole stack. It will be faster on the long term.
It is not easy to find two good senior developers.
> For examle, take a react web developer - that only knows React, who think that the React way is the only way, read some blogs written by a junior programmer - and take it as a truth.
If they know react that, great. Well done, ts react codebase can absorb take a lot of shitty code.
> You can't fix people who cannot learn because of their belief that they already know everything. They will take anything personally that goes in the way of their ego.
You can do a lot. You can mentor junior people, you can setup CI/CD with a lot of automatic checks, you can hire QA person, you can lead by example.
In my current role, I introduced typescript, jest unit testing, helped with cypress e2e, refactored a lot of code and did a lot of work on CI/CD. With a few Senior devs, we can still onboard new devs and push new features.