Software is Losing Juniors Faster Than Ever Before

<p>As software developers, we are used to being part of a talent shortage. People were always willing to pay us for our rare and valuable talents.</p> <p>When software houses could not get any.</p> <p><strong><em>That is changing.</em></strong></p> <h1>In the here and now</h1> <h2>Escaping the junior software development experience trap</h2> <p>In many companies, junior developers are just helpers of Senior and Middle developers.</p> <blockquote> <p>They are the rule takers and not the rule makers in the organization.</p> </blockquote> <p>That means junior developers are often not given a chance to grow and develop their talents. If junior developers are not allowed to get better, they do the only logical thing at that point.</p> <blockquote> <p>Let&rsquo;s all job hop.</p> </blockquote> <h2>At a good company, developers were given opportunities</h2> <p>Ideally, junior developers would be given tasks that suit their capability and that would allow them to benefit from the experience of more experienced developers.</p> <p>In 5 years or so a developer would be well prepared to take on that senior role or a good mid-role at a great company.</p> <blockquote> <p>Yeah. I wish we were all in good companies.</p> </blockquote> <p>I understand that this can degenerate into junior developers being given routine and boring tasks that take a long time but do not require any specialist skills.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/software-is-losing-juniors-faster-than-ever-before-5197303a2330"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>