Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis
by icedchai on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:29PM
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Yep, the value isn't there. I'm on a very lopsided team, about 5 juniors to 1 senior. Almost all of the senior time is being consumed in "mentorship", mostly slogging through AI slop laden code reviews. There have been improvements, but it's taking a long time.
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Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis
by johnnyanmac on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:30PM
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Have you considered regulting AI use, or is it just easier to be mad at the workers and do nothing?
Yes, we are working on some guidelines, but there are layers of bureaucracy...
Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis
by johnnyanmac on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @09:38PM
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That's fair. I'm sorry for being snippy. It just feels weird how my junior years always felt like I was on the edge of a needle for being fired because I didn't work "fast enough". Then I hear stories of this vibe coded slop and everyone seeks to be shrugging in confusion.
Its even more frustrating knowing those people went through a overly long gauntlet and prevailed over hundreds of other qualified would-be engineers. Its so weird just seeing an entire pipeline built around minimizing this situation utterly fail.