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>* Junior developer - Will not produce much business value if left alone, and may produce nothing at all. Requires supervision. This is what people here like t
by babyrainbow 10y ago
>* Junior developer - Will not produce much business value if left alone, and may produce nothing at all. Requires supervision.
This is what people here like to believe. But I don't think it is really true. A kid straight out of college can generate immediate business value if he/she can set up an online shopping cart in Php to give a business an online presence. I am pretty sure that the same kid can code up any business requirement of most of the local organisations that does not need to scale much or work with great reliability.
Also, it is not true that a junior dev requires supervision. Anyone with sufficient motivation and an internet connection can figure stuff out by themselves. I mean, they can get things done, even if in a fantastically stupid fashion.
- seangrogg 10y agoThe previous post made it pretty clear that there are no timelines attached to their perception of developers - a person that brings business value to your company without supervision should not be a junior developer, regardless of whether they have decades of industry experience or are fresh out of college.
- pigpigs 10y agoI agree with you. My observation is that most graduates out of college are able to formulate strategies to high level problems, rapidly create working solutions and generally be productive. What sets us apart from the senior developers as pointed out by the CTO of my company seems to be experience in writing good, scalable code. More often than not this means adhering to best practices, linting and testing extensively and many other things that in general come with experience.