[ryan21030]

I'm a junior developer and here is my opinion:

I started working when I was 18 and I believe I was hired because whilst I still had a really good knowledge of my area (I hope), I was still very cheap to hire £18k per year. This was good for the company I joined as it's a small startup.

I believe that the junior developers my company have hired have all been super eager to impress their bosses and learn new things while still having a huge passion and interest in coding. Whilst we have all been given some time to adjust to our project, we all quickly adjusted and were able to give be benefits very early on. I can't speak for senior developers but these are the main advantages of junior developers.

With regards to relative inexperience of junior developers, I myself have only been coding for a few years now but I have a genuine passion for coding and go home and throw myself into it every night so I believe that I pick myself up there, someone else I work with has been coding since he was 10!! Whilst not having a lot of experience in a professional environment before joining my current company, in the last year or so, I have managed to learn a number of important tools for the job like: mastering linux, built a great knowledge of PHP, built a good knowledge of C, built a great knowledge of JavaScript, built a great knowledge of server administration and last but not least, improved my productivity by at least 10% by mastering vim. It doesn't take long for junior devs to learn this stuff so they're useful to companies.

TLDR; Everyone has something to offer even junior developers.