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Discussion on: How to tell a Junior Dev that what they've done is wrong?

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Keff

Thanks for your addition! Positive reinforcement is always good, I try to do it as much as I can (within a limit, otherwise it can lose it's meaning)

I will ask, though, is the way you want the dev to perform not aligning with how you want it to be done, or the standards set for the team? Do the standards of the team need to be calibrated for better quality and more automated confidence?

A bit of both, we're a small company and don't have many standards in place currently (we're working on it continously), it's somewhat my job to enforce them. I try my best to be as impartial and objective as I can, I will not enforce stuff just because I don't like it, I try to enforce good practices and prevent them from adquiring bad habits.