[mindcrime]

Well, if you're talking about employee #1, then yeah, I think you need experience. But my point is to get into the mold of hiring people that can grow into roles, as early in the process as you can. I also tend to think that a good team should have a mix of people with different levels of skill and experience.

[enko]

Well, I agree, but the article doesn't even have the word "mix" in it, it's "juniors good, seniors bad or at least probably unnecessary".

[mindcrime]

I took it as implicit that they were advocating having at least some senior level people, as one of their bullet points was to "provide mentoring." If there aren't at least some senior people, who would be doing the mentoring?

It's a fair point, though, that TFA doesn't really go into detail about the exact composition of a team that they are suggesting.