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>
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<p>They are the rule takers and not the rule makers in the organization.</p>
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<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>
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<p>Let’s all job hop.</p>
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<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>
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<p>Yeah. I wish we were all in good companies.</p>
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<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>
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