I agree that in an ideal world, it would work like that; however in most companies, 'programmers' are hired, rarely as 'juniors' and sometime are moved across t

I agree that in an ideal world, it would work like that; however in most companies, 'programmers' are hired, rarely as 'juniors' and sometime are moved across the company to a new team, who then realize they are... err ... 'junior' at best. Then there is the minefield of how to break the news to someone that they can't be trusted 'just yet', with the discrimination minefield that implies etc. And in many companies, you can't even go an tell a colleague that their change is in fact, crap, and has to be redone properly. Never been in a company where that didn't create huge waves, regardless of the level of proof you can attach to it. I hear in some companies (google?) it's expected, but it's an exception, in my experience...