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Don’t Destroy Your Dev Team by Growing
- al2o3cr 11y ago"I believe the ideal ratio for senior to junior engineers is three senior to one junior engineer" Either you're defining "senior" in a fairly wacky fashion or you've got a significantly inverted org chart in dev...
- Nadya 11y agoIf you have it inverted - your senior devs are no longer devs and are instead managers of three junior devs each. If your three junior devs don't need constant supervision by a senior dev - then they aren't junior devs, they're senior devs who aren't getting their due. Currently I am the senior dev in my organization. I'm in charge of 4 junior devs. I spend more time babysitting them than I do coding. Things ran smoother when there were three of us (seniors) and two juniors. But the other two seniors got moved to another team and my team got two new juniors to replace them.