Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies
by rectang on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:55AM
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> In your world, is there such a thing as a bad employee?
Of course — I implied as much via the “inappropriately cynical“ characterization.
The tension between capital and labor is inescapable and ancient.
I didn’t think you were generalizing to all juniors. Rather, what caught my interest was that before this last message I perceived the perspective of capital in your words.
Of course. If you don’t see that, you’re missing the point.
In your world, is there such a thing as a bad employee? Or do you assume all employees are inherently good and do appropriate work for their pay and don’t need constant performance management to simply do their job?
In my posts I’m not talking about all juniors. I’m talking about a problematic subset. You seem to be assuming I’m generalizing to all of them. I am not. This is a phenomenon specific to a subset of juniors that is unfortunately a repeated pattern where they all share some very common and obvious characteristics. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to break them out of that mindset and have them join their much happier peers, but to be honest once someone is that deep into the cynical mindset it’s hard to wake them out of it.