Building a good team is hard. Yet companies think they can hire an engineer which had a senior position somewhere and be fine. Senior or 10y experience can mean

Building a good team is hard. Yet companies think they can hire an engineer which had a senior position somewhere and be fine. Senior or 10y experience can mean literally nothing, it doesn't qualify for a central role in a team, nor does it tell anything about quality. Expecting something grand from a bunch of rookies is simply dumb. Writing better blog posts or smart essays won't change anything. A rookie needs to follow the wrong path and fail with it. Good mentoring can speed things up, but you still need to let them fail. Team building is vastly underdeveloped in software engineering, it is not even a serious thing. Yes if you start out with a good guy that carries the newcomers, then you're golden. But that is mostly just luck.