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For sure, a short engagement of 1-2 days would be rare. We'd occasionally do them to get a foot in the door or as a follow-up for a regular customer. We'd still not want a junior engineer on them. You want to make as good of an impression as you can so you get the bigger contracts and you don't want someone there who isn't experienced communicating with clients.

[tptacek]

Yeah, that's probably true.

But, per the thread, there are some special-case projects that are short and do take junior delivery staff; SARs, which are "pentest the documentation" projects meant to derive a thread model and inform a later, real, test (I don't like SARs and think they're a kind of consulting rustproofing, but people smarter than me disagree strongly with this), and, of course, retests.