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Discussion on: Help! Hiring a Jr Dev

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Technical expectations of junior Devs should be lower. As others stated, enthusiasm and interested to learn is more important. The question is not what they know, but what can they learn?

There are several reasons to hire junior devs.

  • If no one hires them, then junior devs will not ever become intermediate or senior devs.
  • Perk of teaching a junior dev is their questions will help you write code more clearly.
  • Junior devs can learn a lot and accomplish tasks you may find repetitive or boring, yet bring value