Junior developers are junior developers: regardless of whether they've been coding since age eight, started in college and graduated with a CS degree, or bounce

Junior developers are junior developers: regardless of whether they've been coding since age eight, started in college and graduated with a CS degree, or bounced around odd jobs before doing a bootcamp, you can't let their code near production without substantial oversight from more senior developers. (I fit into the first bucket and it is frankly amazing to me that they let me touch a keyboard at all in my first two years in industry. I used to pronounce projects done which did not compile, as a result of "just one quick fix" on the last day.) Engineering organizations either a) understand this fact and build teams around it, b) accept that their salary floor is now +/- $140k or so (in Silicon Valley), or c) whine incessantly about the engineering shortage.