Say a small company employs a single senior subject matter expert who successfully manages up the chain to make sure the right work gets done. A junior subject

Say a small company employs a single senior subject matter expert who successfully manages up the chain to make sure the right work gets done. A junior subject matter expert will do better work if they are placed under the senior, because if they are a peer, they are likely to not manage up as well as the senior, who will have to step in and de facto manage to fix that anyway.