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Re:Ask HN: Are junior devs getting worse? by dustingetz on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:43AM (#47015352)
hiring criteria is not uniform, it varies widely across all companies. Keyword driven hiring + contrived interviews that are disconnected from the actual work being performed (but easy to evaluate - this is substitution bias) has damaged engineering culture everywhere. The easy money period of 2018-2022 exacerbated these trends by removing accountability and causing rushed, loose hiring.

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