I'm a self-taught career changer and work for a team that has several new developers transferred from other departments. It works out surprisingly well. The 2

I'm a self-taught career changer and work for a team that has several new developers transferred from other departments. It works out surprisingly well. The 2-3 experienced devs and myself do the harder development parts and the new developers are actually quite valuable as they contribute plenty to the code but also often explain some of the business considerations from other departments.