Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies

Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies by csomar on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:35AM (#45421931)

What people (managers?) don’t realize (or don’t want to realize) is that building software is much more complex than most other professions. Some software is easy and has been done n+1th time (like a simple crud app with a db connection). But some software is really hard and could fall more in the R&D category.

Which brings me to the following point: Earlier in my career, I was a medical student. All superiors were doctors, and though there were managers, no manager intervened in an operation. Also doctors selected their hardware and methods. No manager will ever come to a doctor and suggest that they do their work differently.

Now when it comes to software, everyone wants to chime in.

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Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies by whatever1 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:45AM (#45421975)

If the medical doctor screws up they go to jail. When was the last time a software engineer went to jail because of malpractice?

Software talk is free. So everyone can chime in. Your experience holds no weight. Heck an LLM can do it too.

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Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies by whakim on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:50AM (#45422000)

No offense, but this software engineering elitism does no favors to perceptions of the field. In reality, most other fields are complex and the phenomenon of believing something is simple because you don't understand it is widespread across fields. Dan Luu expounded on this at much greater length/with greater eloquence: https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/

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