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by turdprincess 1319 days ago
On my last team, I had an incompetent junior engineer. It was a time suck to do hold countless pairing sessions with them, answering the same questions again and again without having them learn anything.

On my new team, there is an incompetent senior engineer. Damn... how I miss my incompetent junior, who aside from wasting some time, never really affected the team. The incompetent senior produces impressive amounts of badly architected, untested code which breaks subtly and is impossible to maintain. They are also totally unreceptive to mentorship because they are so senior and know everything.