To hire juniors or to hire seniors?

What is your company's hiring policy?

Hire people on their skill not an artificial title.

@nblackburn hear hear!!

@nblackburn I'm with on this.

My current company doesn't even consider someone with less than 3 or so years experience. They simply don't want "juniors".

My argument is, "so let some other company teach them good or bad habits and then we'll take them".

@GinjaNinja Yes, everyone can flourish under the right conditions but you need to be willing and not everyone is.

5 years+ for me. Have enough "inexperienced" developers in our "shadow it" dept

@thecleaner I get that!

But justify that... It can't just be a case of "I've had enough"

We "experienced" folk are responsible for teaching the n00bs!

If a company doesn't hire juniors because of their perceived lack of experience, I usually see it as a red flag. In my experience, it's meant that they don't have a culture or a system in place to mentor our nourish talent.

@qmfnp You, Sir, are an effing genius!

@qmfnp damn fine point