[spyhi]

A senior engineer can work through a hard problem assigned to a junior engineer, resulting in a well-implemented hard feature and a less junior engineer. Just because a junior engineer is working on it doesn’t mean by default it’s an easy problem—how are you going to grow your engineers otherwise?

[wizerdrobe]

Some firms simply hire nothing but Seniors. You trained up a Junior-Mid-Senior? Cool, well offer him 20k more and call it a day.

[jen20]

> Some firms simply hire nothing but Seniors

The firms that claim to do that almost invariably do not hire people with 20 years of experience, they hire people with 2 years of experience 10 times over. Sometimes that's fine. Usually it's not.

[theshrike79]

This, sadly, needs to change.

The pool for experienced senior level talent won't grow unless _someone_ spends the resources to hire and train juniors.

The incentive being that they can keep the best juniors for themselves and let the others back into the pool for others.