Good junior devs can also have 15+ years of non professional experience from starting as a kid. It's a wide enough bucket that talking about just the top end is very misleading, however the median jr dev is relatively slow and bug prone.
If they have not done any real coding before going to uni I could understand - this BTW is what the raspberry pi was originally created for.
> I don't view the value I add as "can code features faster"
I do, at least partly. I can code so much faster that my cost per feature is lower than a junior dev.
Your cost is less by being paid more? Seems legit
Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer?
by bmurphy1976 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:23PM
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His projects are most likely successful and profitable. The junior devs is probably a comparative catastrophe. I honestly don't get where this junior devs are faster meme is coming from, it sure doesn't represent my experience.
My cost is less by doing more in the same amount of time.
Which is offset by the fact that you're paid significantly more
The point you keep missing is that the amount I'm paid more isn't equivalent to the amount more I can do than a junior dev. I perform at some X more than the junior dev, but I'm not paid X more.
It's good to know you have such a high view of yourself in comparison to others
Good junior devs are... well, by definition, good. They're just younger, and less experienced - but every bit as smart as you are, and pretty skilled in the art of coding. If anything, they have more time than I do and are a lot more eager to "prove themselves".
I don't view the value I add as "can code features faster"...