[ochronus]

> The problem the industry faces isnt that juniors dont grow it's that they spend up to 18 months being a drain on productivity after which point they tend to leave.

Thankfully, that's not my experience with most juniors. Again, my experience is limited (as all of ours is), but if you filter juniors well during hiring, you can get a wonderful set of high-potential learning machines, who, with the right mentors, grow like crazy.

[pydry]

Ive worked with a bunch of great juniors too. None of this changes the fact that they cant hit the ground running, they make mistakes which have to be unpicked and mentoring them eats up time.