Most top companies have a mixture of junior and experienced talent. FAANG companies these days are paying $600k+ for Staff+ engineers, so clearly they don't thi

Most top companies have a mixture of junior and experienced talent. FAANG companies these days are paying $600k+ for Staff+ engineers, so clearly they don't think that relying solely on campus hiring is a viable strategy. Having a healthy mixture is key to building a really strong engineering team. You need an efficient pipeline to ingest junior engineers and staff low-complexity projects, but you also need a solid set of senior and staff engineers to guide projects, drive cross-team coordination, staff high-complexity projects, and (very important!) mentor and grow your junior engineers. Without this, your junior talent will remain junior -- you'll end up with a large group of folks with 1 year of experience repeated N times.