[Salgat]

If you're going to end up having to pay these people high salaries, why not hire a more senior person to begin with?

[t-writescode]

Because over 10 years, you'll have attrition in your seniors as they retire and you'll have juniors that have climbed the ranks and have built half the systems that are now juniors replacing them.

And treating employees with respect the whole time builds an *incredible* amount of loyalty. You also get opportunities for your existing seniors to help grow new team-members, which some of them seek out, and so on.