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Discussion on: Onboarding a junior developer to your team? Here's 12 tips.

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Sarah

Anyone choosing to hire junior devs should be prepared to shoulder some of the burden of teaching them. If you can't afford to spend time doing that, you should only hire senior devs (which also has an associated and increased cost). It's unreasonable to hire a junior person and expect them to only have other juniors to mentor them. A junior dev is an investment - they won't pay off right away and require time in place of the higher salary you'd pay someone who could hit the ground running.

Your response sounds like you've had a lot of junior devs foisted on you, which is not the junior's fault. Presumably, a company knows what skill level they are hiring someone at and it doesn't make sense to be angry that they take more time to onboard.