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Sarah • Edited

It's hard not to roll my eyes any harder. Carolyn's post is not making a list of demands, but rather talking about how to have the best experience onboarding a junior dev. I'm not asking for help becoming a junior engineer - I'm the one who onboards, trains, evaluates, and occasionally has to fire engineers that are not able to progress. I passed out of the junior stage a decade ago.

Anyone who expects a daycare will quickly wash out, whether or not someone takes these measures to onboard them well. Senior devs who are too arrogant to put in the time to onboard a junior dev because they think that they are all "millennials fresh out of their safe space" will certainly lose out on talent by relying out stereotypes. Newsflash, even the youngest millennials aren't just starting their first jobs these days, as they are in their mid-twenties. I think you need to upgrade your insults for the next generation.