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The main cost of juniors is the time it takes other people to get them going. Good onboarding and mentoring of juniors takes a ton of time creating structure and training material, then working with them once they’re on. If any of that’s messed up or gets derailed by execs pushing for MORE PRODUCTIVITY RIGHT NOW, and taking away time folks were using to train juniors, your onboarding will suck and more juniors will founder. Either way, we’re talking a few months, not weeks, and the junior’s salary isn’t the cost companies with any amount of sense are worried about.